What is Geothermal Heat Pump Technology?

Efficient, non-polluting and cost-effective, EnLink’s GHP systems offer an exceptional alternative to conventional heating and cooling systems. GHP has been providing clean comfort for over half a century. In fact, over 750,000 GHP systems have been installed in residential commercial and institutional buildings in the U.S. alone.

The principle behind a GHP system is simple. It uses the constant temperature of the ground below the surface as a highly efficient heat sink that absorbs heat in cooling mode and as a heat source in heating mode.

GHP transfers heat in air from the building to the ground in summer and vice versa in winter. There are two components to a GHP system:

- Earth Heat Exchanger

- Earth heat exchanger (EHX) is buried underground and located outside the building

- EHX acts much like a car ’s radiator

- Heat Pumps inside the building control air movement to EHX

- Multiple heat pumps may be used to decentralize and minimize heat/cooling losses

- Heat pumps are easy to service and do not require specialized training