Utility Networked Geothermal Collaborative

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Gas utility and housing trust to build Vermont’s first ever geothermal-heated neighborhood

Vermont’s natural gas utility is teaming up with two local affordable housing developers to experiment with using geothermal energy to heat a new neighborhood in

March 30, 2026

Eversource, Massachusetts' largest gas utility company, is running the first pilot program in the United States in which a major utility uses geothermal energy to power a neighborhood, in Framingham, Massachusetts, Aug. 3, 2024.

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From Protest to Partnership: How Geothermal Became a Utility Strategy

In 2016, a meeting inside Eversource’s Massachusetts headquarters could have gone very differently. On one side sat William Akley, then president of gas operations. On

February 27, 2026