City estimates put potential utility savings at up to 80% for residents of a planned affordable housing development in Boise, Idaho, according to Canary Media.
Those savings would come from using heat drawn from underground — the city’s geothermal heating network already supplies other buildings, and extending it would connect more than 300 homes in the development.
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The city put the housing project’s total cost at about $140 million.
For the geothermal network extension, semiconductor company Micron Technology contributed $2.5 million to close a funding gap…