One of the World’s Largest Geothermal Networks Is Buried Beneath a Corporate Campus in Rural Wisconsin

Beneath Epic’s campus there are roughly 6,100 boreholes, each drilled hundreds of feet into the earth, comprising one of the largest geothermal heating and cooling networks in the world. Nearly 40 percent of all energy consumed in the U.S. is used by buildings, with more than half of that going to heating and cooling, according to the Department of Energy. “We’re talking about a tremendous source of energy consumption, and companies like Epic have realized that there’s a better way to do it,” said Ryan Dougherty, president of GeoExchange, a geothermal heat pump industry group. 

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