LoCaTion: South Windsor
TiTLe: President,
Co-owner
Company: A&B Cooling &
heating Corp.
Formed: 1973
Web:
www.abcoolingandheating.com
inFo: Wanegar learned about
geothermal at a Connecticut
Light & Power seminar in
the mid-90s. "you take
heat out of the ground,
you put it back in. you're
not burning anything.
The idea clicked!"
Tapping
the Earth
By michele DeLima
G
uy Wanegar is on a
mission — to enliven
awareness and demand
for geothermal HVAC.
Using underground piping,
geothermal HVAC systems use
Earth's constant underground
temperature to produce com-
fortable heating and cooling for
homes and buildings.
"Geothermal's biggest
benefit? Saving consumers up
to 60 percent on their ongoing
energy costs compared to oil or
propane," Wanegar said. "The
30 percent tax break on instal-
lations is also a big plus."
Wanegar designs, builds,
and installs geothermal HVAC
systems for residential and
commercial customers, and
in 2010, he became the first
president of the Connecticut
Geothermal Association. In that
role, he advocates for build-
ers to use more geothermal in
their projects and for the Con-
necticut General Assembly to
treat geothermal like any other
renewable energy source.
"As busy as Guy is, he helped
me design control circuits for a
complicated residential system
in Maine," said Woodie Weiss,
chair of the Madison Energy
& Efficiency Committee. "Guy
taught me everything I needed
to know."
Green
Fact:
For every
unit of
electricity used,
geothermal
hVAC yields
five units
of heat or
cooling.
sourCe: naTional
GeoGraPhiC
16 ConneCTiCuT Green Guide • Fall 2014 www.CTGreenGuide.com
GrEEn WArrior: Guy WAnEGAr
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