Eight Fast Facts About Geothermal Heating and Cooling

Certainly, it’s a big step to move ahead with a geothermal heating and cooling system for your home. But it is a step up. And plenty of Las Cruces homeowners will vouch for that – particularly those who signed on with Sun City Plumbing & Heating for their geothermal system installation. If you’re still mulling your options over, not quite primed to choose, contemplate these focal geothermal facts:

  • Present-day geothermal technology is a proven technology that’s been vetted and perfected over the course of half a century or so.
  • Right now, there are significantly more than one million commercial and residential geothermal heating and cooling installations in this country alone.
  • General satisfaction with geothermal heating and cooling is high, with owners grading the comfort, convenience, and energy savings their geothermal systems afford higher than that of any other system they’ve had.
  • A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency study shows that geothermal systems have the lowest life-cycle costs of any other heating and cooling system being sold today.
  • Maintenance spending is notably lower with geothermal than with common central HVAC systems essentially because geothermal systems have so few moving mechanisms and need so little maintenance in the first place.
  • Geothermal heating and cooling systems normally will remain on the job for a solid 30 to 50 years, whereas traditional HVAC systems quite often must be repaired or replaced after 15 years.
  • Comparing the cost of local utilities and fossil fuel to the cost of maintaining a geothermal heating and cooling system shows that Las Cruces owners of geothermal systems normally see their energy bills lowered by amounts ranging anywhere from 30 to 70 percent!
  • Geothermal heating and cooling systems are much less of an environmental challenge than any fossil fuel system, generating, by comparison, nearly one pound less of CO2 for each hour of use.

If these fast facts have made a geothermal heating and cooling system look more attractive to you, see Sun City Plumbing & Heating, the Las Cruces geothermal pros, today. There’s plenty more we can tell you to set your mind at ease. And when you’re ready to go, we’ve got just the geothermal heating and cooling system that’s meant for your home.