Thermal Energy Networks
Transformative Technologies develops Thermal Energy Networks, TENs, to heat and cool campuses and communities. These systems offer unparalleled economics and a long list of advantages over alternative heating and cooling options. The U.S. Department of Energy maintains a library of case studies documenting decades of their superlative performance across all regions of America. They are increasingly popular, yet inferior HVAC equipment continues to be commonly installed today. TENs are capital intensive and complex, to finance, to implement, and preplan for expansion. The challenges to be overcome are not technological, they require innovative business models.
We integrate industry luminaries across master planning, engineering, procurement, drilling, installation, operations and maintenance, tax credits and grants management, and capital to finance these systems entirely off-balance sheet in co-owned systems, Public Private Partnerships, and Energy as a Serice models. This approach enables the customer to unlock savings on day one, eliminate their risk coordinating unfamilar contractors, and ensure their system will still perform as expected on day 10,000.
Geothermal Heat Pumps
A 2023 National Labs report primarily considers them a “grid cost reduction tool.” They are at their most efficient during heat waves and hard freezes, alleviating pressure on utilities to build generation and transmission.
Just as GSHPs provide cost savings for those who use them as well as the energy ecosystem at large, GSHPs positively impact the health of building occupants as well as their surrounding communities. They improve indoor air quality with advanced filtration, temperature, and humidity controls along with unparalleled affordability, key to using systems to the degree desired. And, uniquely among air conditioning technologies from old window units to the most modern air source heat pump, they don't exacerbate Urban Heat Islands because they don't vent waste heat into their surrounding community, instead sequestering it in the ground to be monetized later.
Perfect TENs
Thermal Energy Networks, or simply TENs, connect Ground Source Heat Pump systems and thermal resources across campuses, communities, and municipalities. They heat and cool buildings with shared bore fields and underground loops, much like utility service lines.
Thermal Energy Networks improve system efficiency and economics by balancing heterogenous energy users and taking advantage of any local thermal assets, such as data centers.
