Welcome to TERRALOOP!
We offer an innovative alternative to your typical—and costly—earth-coupled/ground-sourced heat exchange systems. Unlike traditional closed-loop systems, our Terraloop™ design can offer similar capabilities utilizing less area at greatly-reduced costs across practically all soil conditions.
Developed with funding from the National Science Foundation, our state-of-the-art ground loop technology utilizes the most sophisticated modeling and geographic spatial systems data available to deliver the same heating and cooling capacity Geothermal Heat Pumps have always provided for residential customers.
The Terraloop Breakthrough
Although geothermal systems have historically offered the same heating and cooling capabilities as their less energy-efficient and environmentally-unfriendly air sourced counterparts, Geothermal Heat Pumps (GHPs) face several limitations that have long-hindered their boon.
First is cost. Installation of any GHP costs several times that of an air source system. Often it takes homeowners 10 years or more to recoup their initial investment, though GHPs last longer, need little maintenance, and emit less noise than air source systems.
Second, the installation of both vertical and horizontal wells requires ample yard space that many suburban and urban residential clients simply don’t have. Even vertical wells require properties spacious enough to host the giant rigs necessary to achieve sufficient depths.
Third, traditional installation practices are messy and noisy. With their gaping trenches, horizontal wells require a formidable amount of lawn reconstruction, and the same goes for vertical wells, where the heavy tread of the rigs tear through yards, leaving a muddy mess the clients have to sod.
Our TERRALOOP design overcomes each of these obstacles and more with our revolutionary installation process which takes up little yard space and is as minimally invasive to homeowners as possible.
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At TERRALOOP, we understand how difficult it can be to find a suitable well-digging partner. Traditional well-digging practices involve heavy machinery and require considerable resources and planning, often leading to lengthy delays and driving up costs for customers. Our TERRALOOP can be installed in less time, utilizing less yard-space, at a fraction of the cost of antiquated closed-loop systems. Please contact us, and we’ll explain how TERRALOOP can be readily fitted to any air-to-watr HVAC system.
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Geothermal Heatpumps are the cheapest and cleanest means of heating and cooling your home. With TERRALOOP, you can finally reap these benefits at a greatly reduced cost while cutting energy usage and emissions. Please sign up for our NEWSLETTER and contact your local HVAC provider about partnering with TERRALOOP to utilize our NSF funded, state of the art technology.
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If you are a homeowner or an HVAC provider interested in learned how TERRALOOP can work for you, please sign up for our NEWSLETTER or contact us directly and we will be delighted to share more about our innovative ground-loop technology and discuss potential partnership.
GEOTHERMAL HEAT PUMPS MEAN:
Net reduction in annual electricity consumption and GHG emissions
Reduced need for annual power generation
Reduced need for power generation capacity and storage capacity
Alleviating transmission build-out requirements
Reduced summer and winter resource adequacy requirement
Reduced CO2 emissions in the electric power system and building sector
Reduced marginal system cost of electricity for consumers
Reduced cumulative system cost of electricity
Reduced regional peak load of electricity
Improved reliability of regional electric power supply
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“Geothermal heat pumps offer enormous value for the nation’s energy future.”
“geothermal heat pumps are a ready-made strategy for decarbonizing our buildings while reducing the need for new electricity generation and transmission, and bringing energy savings to Americans nationwide—all while creating U.S. jobs.”
— Alejandro Moreno, Associate Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
THe History OF GHPs:
GEOTHERMAL HEATPUMPS (GHPs) have been in operation since the late 1940’s. They use the relative constant temperature of the earth as the exchange medium instead of the outside air temperature as with your typical heat pump.
Even in the most extreme seasonal climates, just a few feet below the surface of the earth the temperature remains unchanging. Depending on a location’s latitude, ground temperatures can range from 45 F to 75 F. In winter, this ground temperature remains warmer than the air above it, and cooler than the surface air in the summer. A GHP takes advantage of the constant temperature in the earth by dumping heat into the earth and extracting it in the winter through a ground heat exchanger. Relative to traditional air-source heat pumps, the emit almost noise pollution, last longer, and require almost no maintenance, and—most importantly—do not rely on the fickle temperature of the outside air.
While the inside components of any heat pump typical last for approximately 25 years, the ground loops of a closed loop system will last more than a half a century.
For more information visit the International Ground Source Heat Pump Association.