"Geothermal" is a term meaning “heat from the ground.” "Geoexchange" is a technology that lets us capture this geothermal energy and use it to provide both heating and air conditioning for buildings of all types.

Geoexchange is considered the most environmentally friendly way to heat and cool your home.

The US Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Agency

The value proposition is simple – Reduce the use of fossil fuels to heat and cool your home or building by up to 80% by using Free, Clean and Renewable Energy from the Earth.

• Environmentally Superior - This is the most meaningful fossil fuel reduction activity that you can have for a home or building
• Improved Comfort and Safety – Geoexchange can improve the quality of your life by providing your home with a quiet, reliable and efficient heating and cooling system to keep you and those you love comfortable all year round
• Economically Attractive - and best yet you can get these benefits while saving money! By avoiding the use of fossil fuels – you pay substantially less for heating and cooling (link to economics)

Focus on the Markets

Alter NRG's wholly owned subsidiary, CleanEnergy is focusing on three large, growing markets to provide geoexchange solutions:

North America's buildings release more than 2,200 megatons of carbon dioxide each year, some 35 percent of the continent's total

Commission for Environmental Cooperation

Energy Consumption

The construction and operation of buildings consumes over a third of the world’s energy and 40% of all the mined resources (Straube, 2006).  Heating and cooling of buildings and hot water heating in commercial and institutional buildings represents over 64% of the greenhouse gas emissions from secondary energy use. Geoexchange uses free energy from the earth to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with space heating, cooling and water heating in buildings.

Natural Resources Canada, Office of Energy Efficiency, 2006

There is unlikely to be a potentially larger mitigating effect of greenhouse gas emissions and the resulting global warming impact of buildings from any other current, market-available single technology, than from Geoexchange

Natural Resources Canada