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Canadian geothermal heat pumps sales phenomenal

Posted on August 16, 2008

I've got a story in this morning's Toronto Star about low-temperature geothermal -- a.k.a earth energy systems or ground-source heat pumps or geoexchange systems -- and rapid sales of the systems in Canada, particularly Ontario. I'll gloss over the details here, but essentially sales growth of the systems in Canada is in the range of 45 to 55 per cent and far outpaces growth in the United States. Ontario over the past 15 months has outpaced the next closest province, Quebec, by a margin of more than 4 to 1 in terms of residential retrofits. The growth has been so fast that the associati...

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