Ground Source Heat Pump Benefits
Imagine what it what it would be like to have ground source heat pump providing a comfortable home all year round, reducing your energy bills by 25 to 50% and saving the earth all at once. It sounds too good to be true doesn’t it? Well it’s actually not because thousands of commercial and residential buildings already use it.
Lower Running Cost
A ground source heat pump operates more efficiently than conventional heating and air conditioning system because it can deliver up to seven units of heat energy for every unit of electrical energy used. A Geomaster geothermal system can reduce your power consumption by up to 80%.
Safe, Clean and Healthy
Natural gas, lpg or diesel is not required to operate a Ground Source Heat Pump, so there’s no combustion, flames or fumes and no chance of carbon-monoxide poisoning. You can pipe heat through a concrete floor where there is no air movement or in the case of air handling systems we use High-efficiency air filters to keep your indoor air quality higher by removing dust and pollen so you can breathe easier.
3. Environmentally Friendly
The ground absorbs about 50 percent of the sun’s energy that reaches the Earth. Ground Source Heat Pumps harness that free, renewable energy and provide an environmentally friendly way to heat and cool your building. Installing a geothermal system is the environmental equivalent of planting 750 trees or removing two cars from the road for good. And the system doesn’t burn fossil fuels, which means no emissions or harmful greenhouse gases are released into the air.
4. Greater Comfort
Ground source heat pumps provide precise distribution of comfortable air all year long, eliminating hot spots and cold spots. During heating, you’ll experience warm air without the hot draughts associated with ordinary gas furnaces, or the cold blasts of an air source heat pump. When in cooling, our geothermal systems deliver cool, dehumidified air.
5. Quieter
Ground source heat pumps are designed to be quiet. They don’t have a noisy outdoor unit so you have more comfortable indoor and outdoor living areas.
6. Reliability
Ground source heat pumps have proven to be very reliable and require less maintenance. This is because they use the more stable ground temperature to transfer heat which means they last longer. Geomaster Geothermal systems use in ground piping systems that won’t rust or oxidise and have a life cycle of up to 100 years.
7. Versatile and Flexible
Ground source heat pumps can be placed indoors or out and can connect to any combination of the following: inslab (concrete), subfloor (timber), fan coils and radiators or any combination thereof. In addition pools, spas and hot water can be incorporated giving a convenient central plant.
8. Free Hot Water
We can build ground source heat pumps with integrated desuperheaters. These desuperheaters provide free hot water during the cooling cycle by transferring the heat of compression to your domestic hot water system rather than to the ground where it would otherwise be given up. It must be noted that this can work against you in winter because it is desirable for the heat of compression to go towards heating the building because it increases the heating capacity and increases efficiency.
