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…
A few months ago, HEET Co-Executive Director Zeyneb Magavi was asked to give a TEDxBoston Talk as part of a series on planetary stewardship. She said yes. This November, she stepped in front of a live audience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to described her idea for a gas to networked geothermal (NetGeo) transition. She…
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Rachel DeFronzo Wheeler, Executive Assistant and Logistics Director Tell us about what you do at HEET. I’m the Executive Assistance and Logistics Director at HEET. I’m here to help with organizational and administrative support as HEET continues to grow. What excites you about joining the HEET team and working in the clean energy field? I’m…
Cary Smith, owner of Sound Geothermal Corporation and a principal with the Grey Edge Group, has designed countless geothermal systems across the country. This fall, Cary visited HEET at Eversource’s worksite in Framingham, Massachusetts, where the first utility-run networked geothermal system is currently being installed. I (Carrie, HEET Director of Communications) had a chance to…
This fall, HEET hosted a work day with the Harvard Kennedy School of Government to insulate an attic at First Church Nazarene in Central Square. Jason Taylor, HEET board member and a weatherization expert, estimates this work will reduce the church’s bills by about 800 therms—or close to $800 annually in heating cost reduction. As…
Each year since 2017, HEET has tracked the progress of gas utilities in finding and fixing gas leaks with the highest environmental impact. This work is part of the Shared Action Plan, a collaboration between HEET, Eversource Gas and National Grid Gas that aims to both cut emissions and improve the safety of Massachusetts’ gas…
Sometimes, you need to define a challenge in order to communicate how you are solving it. To reach carbon reduction goals nationally, we must transition our buildings—a huge source of greenhouse gas emissions—off of fossil fuels. In carrying out this energy transition to electricity powered by renewable energy, we need a plan that minimizes cost…
HEET Press ReleaseContact: Carrie Klein, Communications Director, carrie.klein@heet.org 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…
New research by HEET, Harvard, and PSE Health Energy finds chemical contamination in natural gas delivered to homes. Read the study here. In 2015, a natural gas storage facility near Porter Ranch, California, sprung a leak. It went on to release nearly 100,000 tons of gas into the air over four months, becoming the largest gas…
