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Experts urge explicit BRIGHT Act support for geothermal (thermal) networks to decarbonize campuses
Summary
Designers, campus sustainability leaders and decarbonization advocates told the Joint Committee that the BRIGHT Act should explicitly include geothermal (thermal) networks as an approved decarbonization option, arguing networks offer high efficiency, long‑term savings and community linkage potential.
A panel of subject matter experts briefed the Joint Committee on Higher Education on geothermal (thermal) networks and urged the bill sponsors to name those systems explicitly in H.54 to maximize emissions reductions and long‑term operating savings.
What geothermal networks are: panelists described the technology as circulating water through an underground loop to move thermal energy between buildings, bedrock and other thermal resources. In that design, heat pumps inside buildings provide heating and cooling without combustion, while a campus‑scale loop provides thermal storage, efficiency and resilience.
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