IGSHPA 2014 – Smooth Sailing for GeoExchange’s Future?

Special to GEO, by Scott Emery, Maevelle Energy Will future winds put the geoexchange industry in irons, running or somewhere in between? You can’t come to the Chesapeake region without […]

GEO Working to Reinstate Federal Bonus Depreciation for Geothermal Heat Pumps

Through its Washington, DC activist team at Bracewell & Giuliani, LLP, the Geothermal Exchange Organization (GEO) is actively supporting “tax extenders bills” that are now under consideration by the U.S. […]

NY-GEO Comments on Empire State’s REV Clean Energy Plan

The New York Department of Public Service first proposed its Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) initiative in April to head off aging electric infrastructure, low load growth, and new peak […]

“Credit Where Credit Is Due” in Massachusetts

Renewable fuels to heat and cool buildings have many virtues, but their use for this purpose is distressingly low. Fuels such as biomass, biogas, and liquid biofuels—as well as geothermal, […]

USDA Funds Renewable and Energy Efficiency Projects

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $68 million in 540 renewable energy and energy efficiency projects nationwide. The funding is provided through the agency’s Rural Energy for America […]

GEO Champions Loop Leasing in New Home Developments

Geothermal heat pumps are efficient and last 100 years or more, but home-builders are hesitant to install the systems for a number of reasons. That’s changing, however, as large-scale housing […]

GEO’s State Advocacy Efforts Continue to Grow

Recent advocacy successes by the Geothermal Exchange Organization (GEO) at the state level appear to be snowballing as a two-year effort to change the way geothermal heat pumps (GHPs) are […]