The Husky Heat Harvesters of Northeastern University have won the US Department of Energy’s 2025 Geothermal Collegiate Competition. They “worked with university staff and outside contractors to understand the geothermal features being planned for Northeastern’s Roux Institute in Portland, Maine, and the new multipurpose athletics and recreational complex that will replace Matthews Arena in Boston,” according to an article in the December 10th issue of Northeastern Global News.
The Husky Heat team won a $10,000 prize in the technical track by developing a project to assess a community’s energy needs and designing a theoretical geothermal heating and cooling system for that community…The team then came up with its own plans to heat and cool Ryder Hall, Shillman Hall and Behrakis Health Sciences Center with a pegboard of pipes under Centennial Common.
‘The idea was to replace some of the energy we currently get from the steam plant,’ which needs updating and is based on fossil fuels, said Chaz Garraway, a Husky Heat Harvester and second-year master’s degree student in Northeastern’s climate science and engineering program.
It’s about transitioning ‘to a new energy source that’s more renewable, more reliable and more sustainable,’ Ortiz said. ”
Congrats to winning geothermal harvesters!
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