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Benefits of geoexchange

​Setting your project apart

In today's competitive market, you want your project to stand out and installing a geoexchange system is one powerful way you can achieve this. The benefits of geoexchange for developers and end users can include indoor comfort, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and achieving a degree of insulation from energy price volatility. You will enjoy even more benefits when FortisBC owns and operates your geoexchange system.

Watch the story of a Victoria developer seeking to make the right energy investment: 

 

 Geoexchange at work

 

Developer benefits

  • Enhances the profile of your project by offering an environmentally friendly energy system to address purchasers' concerns about the impact on the environment
  • Avoids the large capital investment typically required since FortisBC finances the upfront capital costs
  • Reduces your risk and ensures end user satisfaction because FortisBC operates and maintains the system to utility standards

End user benefits

  • Geoexchange systems can be highly reliable and operate according to stringent safety standards
  • Long-term contracts offered by FortisBC ensure user costs remain competitive with conventional energy systems
  • FortisBC's ownership and operation means utility level service and 24x7x365 customer care
  • A smaller environmental footprint is created by end user

Environmental benefits

  • Extracting energy from the earth creates a renewable source of heating and cooling
  • Highly efficient systems require substantially less energy than conventional systems
  • Lower energy requirements mean reduced CO2 and other greenhouse gases emissions

How geoexchange systems work


Watch how geoexchange systems provide heating, cooling and hot water.

 

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