Photo: Rhonda Puckett, the school district superintendent and principal at Liberty High School stands near trenches where loops from geothermal wells are laid. Photo by Allen Best.
This story by Allen Best was originally published by Big Pivots on September 16, 2025. We are sharing it in two parts.
Northern Colorado’s Poudre School District may have been the first school district to give this geothermal a try. That was in 2002, a few years after the district began exploring energy and cost-efficient designs for new buildings. The pilot was at an operations building…