A community coalition including the City of Framingham, the utility company Eversource Energy and the nonprofit HEET have been selected as one of 11 recipients of the Department of Energy’s Community Geothermal funding initiative. The award of $715,000 will go towards planning the expansion of an in-progress networked geothermal system in Framingham, Massachusetts, adding an…
HEET is seeking a Director of Communications to strategically oversee and execute communications. As HEET’s work rapidly gains national prominence, the Director of Communications has the opportunity to drive a national clean energy campaign and define to the public a pathway that gas utilities, municipalities, workers and climate advocates are increasingly recognizing as a viable way to…
In the fall of 2022, Eversource broke ground on the first gas utility-installed networked geothermal system in the nation. HEET’s Learning From the Ground Up research team, including researchers from two national laboratories, U.C. Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Boston University, will collect data and study outcomes on the installation over the next three…
In Massachusetts and across the country, utilities, municipalities and advocates are moving forward on networked geothermal feasibility studies, legislation to allow gas utilities to become thermal utilities, and more. This March, HEET Co-Executive Director Zeyneb Magavi had the chance to meet with U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and tell her about networked geothermal! Read on…
[Press Release | March 2023] An independent analysis by the nonprofit HEET finds that Philadelphia Gas Works (PGW), the city’s municipal gas utility, is projected to spend up to $8 billion over the next 35 years on new gas mains and service lines—even as the city aims to achieve carbon neutrality in nearly the same…
There has been a lot of media attention in the past few months on gas stoves and health. Here’s a breakdown of what the research shows, what you can do today to improve your indoor air quality, and steps to electrify going forward. New research provides a better understanding of the potential health and environmental…
With energy prices rising this winter, we took a look back through The Honest Book—a how-to manual of home energy savings tips that HEET wrote in 2012—for some inspiration. We pulled out two easy tips that can help you cut emissions, save on your energy bill and improve air quality in your home: 1. Lower…
It’s been a wonderful year, filled with fascinating data, a growing team and an ever-expanding network of energy transition enthusiasts. Here’s our best attempt to summarize it all. 13 HEET team members squished into 1 tiny office! (Help!) 22,802 gas leaks mapped in MA including CO2 emissions by town, 3,346 leaks mapped in Washington, D.C., 5,592 MA gas pipe replacements planned for the next 5 years extracted…
Framingham, Massachusetts is the site of the first gas-utility-run networked geothermal system, ever! Once complete, this network of water-filled pipes, heat pumps and boreholes will provide heating and cooling to a community of over 40 houses, apartments, and commercial buildings, including low-income housing. How did we get here? HEET first pitched the idea of networked…
In Framingham, Massachusetts, two University of California Berkeley scientists, a New Hampshire driller and a climate nonprofit director stare down the same 600 foot borehole. This unlikely crew is gathered on an Eversource Gas worksite, where the gas utility is installing an energy system to heat and cool homes—without gas. HEET, a Massachusetts climate nonprofit,…
