There was a lot of ENERGY in the room during the four Utility-Scale Geothermal sessions in MIT’s January IAP (Independent Activities Period). Participants included people from MIT, Grey Edge, Eversource, National Grid, ERDA Energy, NEGPA, NYGEO, University of New Hampshire, many state regulatory agencies, and the Cities of Boston and Cambridge. Together they took on…
The Massachusetts Senate has just announced their Next Generation Climate Policy Legislation, S.2477 and it directs the Department of Public Utility to allow pilots by gas companies of ‘Utility-Scale Renewable Thermal Energy’! This is great news for our Energy Shift project. Read more about the legislation here.
Read our guest blog at Rocky Mountain Institute! HEET Co-Executive Director Audrey Schulman pitches a ‘grounded’ path to electrification, featuring groundbreaking work by Cary Smith of Grey Edge Group! Read the Pipes or Wires post here.
WBUR reporter Bruce Gellerman explains how HEET promoted interconnecting wells to build GeoMicroDistricts that can replace gas infrastructure. How A Climate Change Nonprofit Got Eversource Thinking About A Geothermal Future tells the story of HEET’s work to build a relationship with the utilities, with the successful result of three geothermal pilots in the works.
Based on HEET’s GeoMicroDistrict concept, Eversource stated its intention to pilot three geothermal pilots in a document recently filed with the Commonwealth. The results of these pilots will help us all learn how to replace gas with renewable heating and cooling through shared-loop geothermal. The boreholes for these pilots are in the street and run…
After the Merrimack Valley gas disaster, HEET spearheaded ideas for omnibus gas legislation, then worked with Gas Leaks Allies and 51 cosponsors to rethink how gas companies deliver heat to customers in Massachusetts. Our state’s requirement to reduce emissions 80% by 2050 means that our gas companies, with all of their workers, have no long-term…