Geothermal Heat Pump Services In Virginia Beach 

Using the Earth to Heat and Cool Your Home in Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth & Surrounding Area

Our heating and cooling technicians at Climatemakers are proud to provide geothermal heat pump technology to homes in the Virginia Beach area. The operation of a geothermal heat pump depends on harnessing the power of the seasons and the sun. By relying on solar energy, geothermal heat pumps are an ecologically conscious solution to a constant human need.

Solar Energy for Heat Pumps

The amount of solar energy reaching the surface of the planet is so vast that in one year it is about twice as much as will ever be obtained from all of the Earth’s non-renewable resources of coal, oil, natural gas, and mined uranium combined…this is more energy in one hour than the world uses in one year.

46% of the sun’s energy is absorbed by the ground. Just outside your backdoor, a few feet under the ground surrounding your home, there’s an amazing energy source just waiting to be tapped. The name of this amazing source of energy is “geothermal ” (“geo=earth; “thermal” = heat”).

For centuries, people have tried numerous ways to obtain relief from the excess heat of summer and the unwanted cold of winter. To learn that the technology to do this is now available is exciting. As an added bonus, this energy, that this energy is free, clean, and endlessly renewable…it eliminates the need to burn any fossil fuels, and only enhances the desirability.

Now rising energy costs coupled with increasing concerns about air pollution and global warming, there is a renewed and unprecedented interest in the use of geothermal energy systems as people discover that geothermal is the most natural heating and cooling choice to heat and cool their homes.

The Department of Energy (DOE) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have both endorsed ground source heat pump systems as amongst the most energy efficient and environmentally friendly heating, cooling, and water heating systems available. As far back as 1993, a report from the EPA concluded that geothermal technologies represented a major opportunity for reducing national energy use and pollution, while delivering comfort, reliability and savings to homeowners.

And the concept is so simple. Simply put, a geothermal system uses the solar energy that is stored year-round just beneath the earth’s surface… energy that is free, unlimited, 100 percent renewable while leaving no carbon footprint…emitting absolutely no carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide or other harmful greenhouse gases.

It does this by using a high-strength pipe made of thermal plastic buried in the ground in a loop configuration. This closed loop is filled with an environmentally safe water/antifreeze solution that transfers heat to or from the earth as needed. The closed loop circulation system is virtually maintenance free, with a life expectancy of over 50 years. There are several ways to connect your home to the earth’s energy power station using the four typical geothermal designs below.