Chicago's Geothermal Experts
Earth Power brings geothermal to the Chicago area — even on tight 25-foot lots. Lower your bills, breathe cleaner air with zero combustion, and eliminate your dependence on natural gas.
Why Geothermal?
Geothermal isn't just heating and cooling — it's a permanent piece of utility infrastructure that appreciates in value and pays dividends for generations.
Geothermal leverages the earth's constant underground temperature to dramatically cut heating and cooling costs year-round. Going all-electric also eliminates your $40/month gas meter charge and unlocks ComEd's Space Heating rate — cutting the Distribution Facilities Charge in half for an additional 10–20% drop in your total electric bill.
The ground loop lasts 50–100 years and increases in value as installation costs rise ~5% annually. A $20K loop installed today could cost $54K to replicate in 20 years.
Geothermal eliminates all combustion from your home — no carbon monoxide risk, no gas byproducts. Your family breathes cleaner air, free from the pollutants of burning fossil fuels.
Unlike air-source heat pumps that struggle in extreme cold and pull 2–4× more electricity, geothermal delivers consistent performance through Chicago's harshest winters and summers.
Opt out of natural gas volatility and its unpriced pollution costs — methane leakage, health impacts, and pipeline damage. Geothermal is a clean, non-combustion solution for decades.
Geothermal cooling loads are often 50% less than conventional AC at peak. By avoiding extreme demand spikes, your system helps prevent costly grid upgrades — and makes off-grid living viable.
How Geothermal Compares
For a home you plan to keep, geothermal usually wins on lifetime cost and winter comfort here.
An air-source heat pump pulls heat from outdoor air, so its efficiency falls when it's coldest and it leans on electric backup. A geothermal system draws from the earth, a steady ~55°F year-round. Air-source costs less to install; geothermal runs more efficiently and lasts longer.
A gas furnace burns fuel inside your home. Geothermal moves heat that already exists in the ground — no combustion, no gas line, no flue.
A furnace can't deliver more energy than the gas it burns; geothermal delivers several units of heat per unit of electricity, and cools in summer — replacing your furnace and your AC at once. And removing combustion as a source of heat eliminates the possibility of carbon monoxide leaks and improves indoor air quality.
A central AC only cools; a geothermal system both heats and cools with one piece of equipment.
You're not buying, maintaining, and eventually replacing a separate furnace and AC. Geothermal cooling is also more efficient and much quieter — there's no loud outdoor condenser, because the system moves heat into the ground instead of the hot summer air.
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Geothermal is more than HVAC — it is permanent infrastructure that adds home value and lowers your total cost of ownership.
The ground loop lasts 50–100 years, the heat pump runs 20–25 years, and replacement costs are dramatically lower because the loop stays in place.
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