The ever-increasing cost of conventional energy has lead to rising interest in renewable solutions in the agricultural and horticultural sectors. With dramatically lower operating and maintenance costs and reduced emissions, geothermal heating and cooling technology is becoming the solution of choice.

While implementation costs for these installations can be high, financial support and subsidy is available from a variety of sources. Contact Terra Energy for information on how to make the switch to renewable, geothermal energy more affordable.

Why is geothermal energy so important to the agricultural and horticultural sectors? Consider:

- Conditioned cultivation and breeding, year-round, at greatly reduced cost
- Cost-effective climate control across multiple zones
- Increased reliability with less maintenance
- Long working life span
- Reduced emissions and environmental impact
- Reduced dependence of fossil fuel prices

Research has shown that conditioned growing en breeding forms the cultivation technology for the future. Conditioned cultivation has 2 major advantages: reduction of energy costs and augmentation of production quantity & quality. Conditioned growing and breeding means in practice heating in winter and cooling in summer.

This opens doors for heat pumps combined with underground thermal energy storage, because it makes the savings on exploitation costs even higher; compared to traditional heating & cooling systems.