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Air source heat pumps seem like magic when they turn one unit of electricity into two, three, or even four units of heat moved. But did you know there's an even more efficient option? That's right — ground source a.k.a., "geothermal" heat pumps (GSHPs) can achieve a 6.0 coefficient of performance in the right settings! Instead of pulling heat from the air, GSHPs draw it from below the ground through a network of pipes filled with water or antifreeze. These pipes can be as shallow as 20 feet to as deep as three football fields.
Join us on February 27 at 10:00 am (Pacific) to learn more about this burgeoning decarbonization solution. Our expert presenters will discuss the many benefits — high efficiency, cold climate performance, and load reduction, to name a few. They will also discuss the barriers that currently exist, like upfront costs and space constraints, and how those challenges can be solved. This roundtable will focus in particular on ground source heat pumps in commercial buildings, analyzing both building and district level options for geothermal energy. We’ll also review thermal energy networks and compare the advantages and disadvantages of ground and air source heat pumps.
Panelists include:
Joselyn Lai – Co-founder & CEO, Bedrock Energy
Joselyn Lai is co-founder and CEO of Bedrock Energy, a technology start-up helping real estate tap into clean heat from the ground right underneath their properties. With subsurface analytics and autonomous drilling innovations, Bedrock is dramatically reducing the cost, space, and time requirements of constructing geothermal HVAC systems, with a vision to unlock distributed geothermal as a scalable, investment-grade clean energy asset class. Prior to Bedrock, Joselyn spent a decade in start-ups across sustainable agriculture, urban mobility, and other mission-oriented categories, and started her career at Bain & Company.
Matt Rash P.E., Sr. Product Manager, Hydronics, Mitsubishi Electric Trane HVAC US LLC
Matt Rash is a manager for the commercial air to water hydronics business segment. He has been with Mitsubishi & Mitsubishi Electric Trane HVAC since 2010. Matt comes from a consulting background in the architectural and engineering community where he worked for 8 years as a mechanical Engineer responsible for designing HVAC systems for commercial, healthcare, and institutional facilities. Prior to arriving at Mitsubishi, Matt worked for Trane in the turnkey contracting group with experience in auditing facilities, then quantifying and designing energy improvement measures. He has extensive background over the past 15 years with commercial VRF system design and application support (both air and water) including development of detailed pre-sale application guides & tools, conducting pre-sale application training, and in-depth field / post sale support of the Mitsubishi & Mitsubishi Trane VRF product line and more recently air to product line. With his extensive application background in commercial VRF systems, Matt is excited about applying this experience to help others utilize the full benefits of the Mitsubishi inverter driven air to water and VRF technologies.
Moderator:
Noah Gabriel, Senior Project Analyst, New Buildings Institute
Noah Gabriel is a Senior Project Analyst at New Buildings Institute working within the Building Innovation team. Before joining NBI, Noah worked at Atlas Public Policy where he wrote about green building technology.
