Pathways to Commercial Liftoff: Geothermal Heating and Cooling
Type: White Paper
Categories: Commercial, GHG Emissions
Date Published: 3/21/2025
Author: By Department of Energy
Primary Topic: GHG Emissions
Geothermal heating and cooling technologies are important and underutilized solutions for supporting a more resilient and efficient national energy system, as well as reducing emissions from buildings. Deployment of geothermal heat pumps (GHPs) with air-source heat pumps (ASHPs) and other energy efficiency measures can achieve key energy resilience, energy affordability, and national decarbonization goals. According to the U.S. Department of energy, geothermal heating and cooling can reach Liftoff in 2035 by focusing on scaling near-term opportunities for installations of GHPs in the equivalent of 7 million homes, a $100-150 billion investment opportunity.
Achieving Liftoff and commercial scale will rely on achieving 5 major imperatives that increase the value proposition by reducing costs or increasing benefits and expand the market size of GHPs. To learn more about these imperatives and potential solutions to unlock them, download this report from the U.S. Department of Energy:
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