Geothermal

FAA Grant Helps Portland Jetport Save 50,000 Gallons Of Oil A Year With Geothermal Heating And Cooling

May 3, 2011
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A group of officials gets a look at upgrades under way at the Portland Jetport.

Portland, Maine’s new airport expansion is to be the first in the country to use a dead-simple but often overlooked technology to significantly reduce its heating and cooling bills. They’re calling it a geothermal system, but it’s not like the kind that produce power in Iceland; it’s more properly called a “ground-source heat pump.” With a $2.5 million VALE grant, the  innovative, geothermal heating and cooling system that will save the 137,000 square foot...

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