Geothermal Systems- The Wave of the Future?

Sponsors: PES Chapter -FWCS
Date: Friday March 25, 2011
Time: 11:30 AM
Speaker: Mr. Jay Egg Dale Tillis, Facilities Operations Manager
Location: Florida Reliability Coordinating Council (FRCC), 1408 N. West Shore Blvd., Suite 1002, Tampa, Fl., 33607
Cost: $10.00 IEEE Members, $20.00 Non-Members, $5.00 Students
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Jay thought he had discovered Geothermal Air Conditioning during a repair to his own home air conditioning system on Labor Day weekend in 1989. After replacing a bad part, he became concerned about the very hot temperatures outside and determined that he would reduce the load on the air conditioning by taking water from his irrigation well used for lawn watering purposes, and pipe it through a water cooled exchanger. The cool water temperature from the irrigation well measure 72 degrees even during the brutal 95 degree summer heat. The improvement in efficiency was astounding, as it dropped his energy consumption to about half of what it was running previously. At this point, Jay believed he had discovered ground water cooled, or geothermal air conditioning. http://www.egggeothermal.com/

As he explored the opportunities, he found that there were others that shared his vision. Oklahoma State University under the direction of Dr. Jim Bose had commissioned the International Ground Source Heat pump Association (IGSHPA). The organization had completed considerable research into the technology. Jay traveled there to become certified as a designer and installer of geothermal exchange systems. He started Egg Systems in 1990 to provide energy efficient geothermal air conditioning systems to the Florida, and especially the Tampa Bay markets. Jay did very well with the technology, being featured on several network affiliated news stations and featured in many newspapers and magazines.

In about 1995, Jay began to expand the focus of Egg Systems to all facets of Heating Ventilation, and Air Conditioning, hoping to capture a larger portion of the market. Never losing the desire to see this technology flourish, he became a very successful commercial contractor, expanding operation into the Georgia and southeast U.S. market. Jay received a call from his project manager about a customer inquiry into federal tax credits. Knowing of no tax credits, Jay assigned the project manager to research the topic for recent legislation. They discovered a large document entitled the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009”. In this document were provisions for among many other things, a 30% uncapped tax credit for all costs associated with geothermal air conditioning installations that met certain criteria.

Mr. Egg’s company is currently involved in geothermal projects with the US Army, DOE, several large universities and multiple international commercial organizations.

Mr. Egg is currently scheduled to present at the Renewable World Energy Conference in Tampa, Fl in March, 2011. After which he and his staff have been booked to film webinars for the geothermal circuit, and teach geothermal basics at the college level