How You Can Use Geothermal To Gain LEED Certification Here is an excerpt from a white paper I just published on how and where a ground source heat pump can be utilized to gain LEED certification. By now, nearly everyone has at least heard of LEED but not many… Continue reading “How You Can Use Geothermal To Gain LEED Certification”
The 9 Best Geothermal and Solar Resources on the Internet This is a simple post. Here are our favorite solar and geothermal resources we’ve run into (or created!) over the past couple years that are really useful resources for understanding the technology, basic design, policy and sales of solar and… Continue reading “The 9 Best Geothermal and Solar Resources on the Internet”
How to Overcome the Top Five Objections in Selling Geothermal and Solar Getting jobs is the hardest part of the renewable energy industry. My goal is to provide you with the appropriate resources and advice needed to sell jobs and grow your business. These objections will come up equally when selling geothermal,… Continue reading “How to Overcome the Top Five Objections in Selling Geothermal and Solar”
The Third Most Common Mistake Made Designing Geothermal Heat Pump Systems This is the last part in a three part serious about the three most common errors that geothermal designers make when designing ground source heat pumps system. If you’ve been following, the main concern for a very simple reason, the… Continue reading “The Third Most Common Mistake Made Designing Geothermal Heat Pump Systems”
Three Most Common Mistakes Made by Geothermal Designers If you’re new to the geothermal heat pump industry, read the Geothermal 101 Reading list. It has free tools and articles on geothermal design and installation, and sales and marketing best practices. Working in the ground source heat pump (GSHP)… Continue reading “Three Most Common Mistakes Made by Geothermal Designers”
How to Measure Demand for Geothermal Heating and Cooling in Your Area Your organization might want to break into the renewable energy fields — you may be considering geothermal and solar installation or energy auditing, but you might not know if you should take the plunge. You must determine: is there demand? The truth is, most times it… Continue reading “How to Measure Demand for Geothermal Heating and Cooling in Your Area”
Get LoopLink RLC Certified and Become a Geothermal Designer! The Geothermal Designer Boot Camp + LoopLink™ RLC course is a joint effort between Geo-Connections and HeatSpring designed to make experienced geothermal system designers – expert geothermal system designers. The goal of the program is to reward industry professionals who have taken… Continue reading “Get LoopLink RLC Certified and Become a Geothermal Designer!”
Standing Column Wells – How To Save 30% vs. Closed Loop Geothermal How much does a geothermal system cost? After talking to thousands of residential and commercial clients, I’ve realized that’s the question on everybody’s mind. The Standing Column Well was developed to make geothermal more affordable, and more possible in urban… Continue reading “Standing Column Wells – How To Save 30% vs. Closed Loop Geothermal”
Online Geothermal Designer Boot Camp + LoopLink RLC Certification The course will use IGSHPA’s “Residential and Light Commercial Design and Installation Manual”, and is taught by the author, Ryan Carda P.E. LoopLink RLC, an online geothermal design tool, will be used heavily in the class and the course comes… Continue reading “Online Geothermal Designer Boot Camp + LoopLink RLC Certification”
Geothermal Business Plan Road Map: A (Free) Beginner’s Guide to the Geothermal Heating & Cooling Industry HeatSpring’s ‘Geothermal Business Plan Road Map’ is a free white paper aimed at demistifying the geothermal industry. It is written for new or existing business owners looking to apply their expertise in the residential or commercial geothermal market.