Monthly Archives: April 2011
GAOI leaders provide training for SIU Edwardsville construction management class
GAOI directors Dominique Durbin and Chris Smith provided real-world training for more than 40 future construction managers recently at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. The two provided an Earth Day (April 20) lecture on geothermal heating and cooling for the class of Dr. Jie Gong. The students are mainly college juniors in Dr. Gong’s class on construction [...]
Posted April 25th, 2011 by JohnFreitagGovernor Quinn touts geothermal in Oak Park
Illinois Governor Touts Geo April 19 – As part of “Earth Month” in Illinois, Gov. Patrick Quinn toured a Walgreens drugstore in Oak Park, IL, which features the first geothermal energy system used in a chain drugstore in the country. The system, which went live when the store opened last October, has reduced the store’s [...]
Posted April 25th, 2011 by JohnFreitagGEO on federal clean energy standard…
In response to a White Paper on a potential Clean Energy Standard (CES) bill promoted by the Obama Administration through the Senate Energy Environment Committee, the Geothermal Exchange Organization (GEO) provided detailed comments on April 11. Under the President’s proposal, electric utilities would have to provide 80 percent of their power from clean sources by [...]
Posted April 25th, 2011 by JohnFreitag