A promising alternative to natural gas has been taking root in Massachusetts — underground pipes and wells that tap into geothermal energy to heat and cool buildings across a neighborhood. But late ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The recent cancellation of a Massachusetts networked geothermal project isn’t dampening enthusiasm for the emerging clean-heat ...

Along with earthworms, rocks, and the occasional skeleton, there’s a massive battery right under your feet. Unlike a flammable lithium ion battery, though, this one is perfectly stable, free to use, ...

New Haven, Connecticut, has broken ground on an ambitious geothermal energy network that will provide low-emission heating and cooling to the city's bustling, historic Union Station and a new public ...

Representatives from Boston-based climate solutions nonprofit HEET, and Framingham’s Networked Geothermal Pilot Project met with Newton’s Public Facilities Committee Wednesday to discuss geothermal ...

Rooftop solar panels have become an unremarkable sight in Arlington, along with electric vehicles and air-source heat pumps. For those with both the resources and the motivation to move away from ...

After years of planning and months of drilling boreholes hundreds of feet below the earth, a first-in-the-nation, neighborhood-scale geothermal heating and cooling project came online in Framingham on ...

Hundreds of boreholes form the underground part of a geothermal heating and cooling network beneath Colorado Mesa University’s campus in Grand Junction, Colorado. The system currently connects 16 ...

A unique partnership between a utility company, Eversource, and a climate advocacy group, HEET, led to a first-in-the-nation network geothermal neighborhood in Framingham, Massachusetts. Ground-source ...

Governments worldwide are increasingly interested in geothermal energy as a clean, renewable source of heating and electricity. The UK and US have significant untapped geothermal resources that could ...

FRAMINGHAM — The city's pilot program for geothermal energy could be headed for expansion after a Boston-based nonprofit announced it had landed a $7.8 million federal grant and is partnering with ...