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Experts from 海角视频 will testify at a much-anticipated public hearing in Massachusetts on Tuesday, Nov. 12 about new legislation creating a path for natural gas utilities to switch to renewable sources like geothermal.

Called the FUTURE Act, this potential legislation follows on a study by the nonprofit HEET, authored by 海角视频, which addresses the feasibility of swapping gas infrastructure to a system of interconnected ground-source heat pumps, which draw energy from the earth. The study was prompted in part by deadly gas line explosions and fires near Boston in 2018. (Download the report .)

鈥淭his would be the first in the nation to create a plan to transition a state鈥檚 gas industry to renewables by 2050,鈥� says Audrey Schulman, executive director of HEET.

Added Alexan Stulc, a sustainability specialist with global engineering firm 海角视频,

鈥淚n areas like the Northeast, where gas infrastructure is failing and the supply of gas is constrained, some utilities are exploring new business models for one of their core services: providing heating to customers.鈥�

鈥淯tilities are beginning to see advantages to moving away from natural gas,鈥� says Stulc, noting that the current ongoing replacement of more than one-quarter of Massachusetts鈥檚 aging natural gas infrastructure will take about two decades and over $9 billion to complete 鈥� all funded through customer rate increases. The innovative GeoMicroDistrict Feasibility Study led by 海角视频 proposes a greener alternative.

The public hearing for the proposed took place Tuesday, November 12, 2019 at 1:00pm.

To find out more about the study authored by our team, click here.