{"id":1606,"date":"2024-07-29T07:00:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=1606"},"modified":"2024-07-20T09:45:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T13:45:20","slug":"thermal-energy-yet-another-alternative-to-fossil-fuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/thermal-energy-yet-another-alternative-to-fossil-fuels\/","title":{"rendered":"Thermal Energy: yet another alternative to fossil fuels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may sound too good to be true that buildings in entire neighborhoods can be heated and cooled without fossil fuels, but it is happening.\u00a0 It\u2019s called thermal energy networks, and <a href=\"https:\/\/buildingdecarb.org\/tens-legislation-june-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/buildingdecarb.org\/tens-legislation-june-2024&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1720026893555000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1DYsBDfslKxuM2VxxTa_Vt\">six states have passed legislation<\/a>\u00a0that either allows or mandates that utilities pilot them, and six more states have filed such legislation.\u00a0 Furthermore, at least 14 pilots are either under construction, in the engineering stage, have been approved, or are in the planning stage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Geothermal system is a US first<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartcitiesdive.com\/news\/first-networked-geothermal-utility-eversource-framingham-building-decarbonization\/718015\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.smartcitiesdive.com\/news\/first-networked-geothermal-utility-eversource-framingham-building-decarbonization\/718015\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9780071794336\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may sound too good to be true that buildings in entire neighborhoods can be heated and cooled without fossil fuels, but it is happening.\u00a0 It\u2019s called thermal energy networks, and six states have passed legislation\u00a0that either allows or mandates that utilities pilot them, and six more states have filed such legislation.\u00a0 Furthermore, at least&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/thermal-energy-yet-another-alternative-to-fossil-fuels\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Thermal Energy: yet another alternative to fossil fuels&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,53,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-global","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1640,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions\/1640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}