Find out what geothermal would mean for your site — before you commit to anything.
Most operators we talk to have the same first question: would this even work here? Answering it properly takes research — your utility’s rate history, the geology under your fields, which incentives your county actually qualifies for, what the permitting path looks like in your town. That work exists whether or not anyone does it for you.
So we do it, and we hand you the file. A Fifty Under Site Report is a roughly 30-page assessment of one specific operation, built from public records, published data, and whatever you choose to share. It tells you what a ground-source system would have to overcome at your site, what it would likely cost you and save you, and — plainly — where the case is weak.
It is yours to keep, whether or not you ever work with us. Take it to your lender, your co-op, your board, or another installer. We would rather you make a good decision with real information than a fast one with ours.
What the pages actually look like
Six representative pages, shown at reduced size. Every report follows the same structure; the content is written for one operation and no other.
One operation, named
No template branding, no stock imagery. The report is about your site and says so on the front.
Your operation, on paper
Buildings, area, current fuel, and the facts we could establish — with anything unknown marked as unknown rather than modelled around.
Your energy market
Your utility’s rate history and pending cases, propane and heating-oil exposure, and who actually sets the price you pay.
The ground you would drill
Local stratigraphy from the state geological survey, likely bore depth, and where the drilling risk actually sits.
An honest viability grade
Nine dimensions marked green, amber or red — and a section that argues against the project. A report with no bad news in it is not worth reading.
What the schedule looks like
Two timelines — one if we own the system, one if you do — scaled to the size of your operation.
About these previews. These are structural mock-ups of the report layout, shown to give you a sense of the format. Figures, grades and labels shown here are placeholders, not results from any real operation — the report you receive is written from your site’s own data.
What the report covers
Every report runs the same sixteen sections. Roughly half is our standing explanation of how ground-source systems and contracts work; about a third is specific to your state and utility; the rest is about your operation and no one else’s.
- Your operation & site — buildings, area, layout, and what a borefield would need.
- Regional setting & site layout — mapped, with the access and siting constraints marked.
- Energy profile — where your heating, cooling and process load actually goes.
- Your energy market — your utility, its rate history, and the cases pending now.
- Who sets your price — load growth, gas on the margin, and propane exposure.
- What geothermal would mean here — a schematic drawn for your facility type.
- Advantages & constraints — both columns, at the same length.
- Incentives you qualify for — the federal ITC, adders by county, and state programmes.
- Subsurface conditions — local stratigraphy, likely bore depth, drilling risk.
- Precedent — comparable installations and what they cost to run.
- Economics & structure — the value stack, and owning it versus GaaS side by side.
- System life & the overhaul window — when your existing plant comes due.
- Environmental effect — computed from your own load, not a generic figure.
- Permitting — the approvals your town and state actually require.
- Viability assessment — nine dimensions, graded, with the weak ones named.
- Timeline, local contacts & open questions — and what would sharpen the answer.
What operators use it for
We are not going to tell you a document will cut your energy bill. It will not. What it will do is put the decision in front of you in a form you can act on — or set aside with a clear conscience.
Deciding whether to look further
The cheapest outcome is finding out early that geothermal does not fit your site — before you have spent a season on it. A fair number of reports end that way, and we say so in them.
Making the case to someone else
A lender, a co-op board, a landlord, a family partner. The report is sourced and self-contained, so the person you hand it to can check it without taking your word for anything.
Timing it to the overhaul
The right moment to consider a change is when the boiler or chiller is coming due anyway. The report tells you where your existing plant sits in its life and what that window looks like.
What the report is not
We would rather you know the limits before you pay for it than after.
From request to report
Tell us the operation and where it is. Everything after that is on us — though the report gets sharper the more you are willing to share.
You do not have to send us a single document to get one. But if you can share twelve months of fuel and electric bills, the age of your heating plant, and a rough building footprint, the modelled figures stop being estimates and start being arithmetic on your own numbers.
Ask about a report for your site
Reports are priced per site, because the work varies with the size of the operation and whether we have covered your state before. Tell us where you are and what you run, and we’ll come back with a scope, a price, and an honest read on whether it’s worth your money.
We currently cover New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Massachusetts. If you are elsewhere, ask anyway — we’ll tell you what it would take.
Two ways in
The report is the short way in: you learn where you stand without opening your books or committing to a process. If it points somewhere worth going, the project questionnaire is the next step — and the work in your report carries straight into it.
Buy the site report
A paid, self-contained assessment of your site built from public information. No questionnaire, no NDA, no commitment on either side. You get a document and an answer.
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If you already know geothermal is worth pursuing, skip ahead. The questionnaire opens joint diligence under a mutual NDA — your loads and bills, our costs and assumptions, both sides modelling it openly.
Open the questionnaire →On sourcing. Site reports are assembled from public and published sources — U.S. Energy Information Administration price and outlook series, state public service commission filings and rate cases, state geological survey mapping, IRS energy-community designations, and county and municipal code — together with any information the operator chooses to provide. Every modelled figure is identified as modelled on the page where it appears. Nothing in a report is an offer, a quotation, or engineering advice.