“Under the current Title 24 process, building designers and owners must struggle to get GHP’s into their projects,” says Doug Dougherty, GEO president.
An ordinary residential job for Ray Bayliff, and most other geothermal drillers for that matter, involves drilling one set of boreholes to install a single geothermal heat pump system for one house.
“Raw data show thattheVRFsystemusedtwice asmuchenergyasthe geothermal systemduring the two-yearstudy period,” says Jeff Spitler, leader of the research team.