Speaker: John Freitag of Geothermal Association Of Illinois

Topic: Illinois geothermal “group buy” programs, changing the way GSHPs being promoted and sold.- 

What’s in a “group buy” program? The Geothermal Alliance of Illinois has been finding out over the past two-plus years, spinning off geothermal heat pump group buy programs that are modeled off of very popular solar PV group buys that are popping up all across Illinois and other parts of the U.S. Taking off on the solar model, the GAOI has partnered with the City of Urbana over the past two-plus years to deliver Geothermal U-C, the first group buy that covers three counties in eastern Illinois, including Champaign-Urbana where the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana is located. Late last year, the GAOI and electric cooperative Jo Carroll Energy in northwestern Illinois kicked off the Northwest Illinois Geothermal Power Up program that covers several counties in the northwestern corner of the state. The third group buy is larger in scope and scale and started earlier this year in eight northern Illinois counties. The GAOI partners with consumer organization, the Illinois Citizens Utility Board, or CUB, and the Midwest Renewable Energy Assn. with this group buy program. GroGeothermal Chicagoland has numerous dealers across the Chicago and suburbs region, and stretches out to include geothermal hot spot Rockford.

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