Eversource utility-scale thermal energy pilot links residential and commercial buildings in Framingham to provide heating and cooling

Drilling rigs are punching the last of 320 boreholes this summer on a full city block along the East River, where Lendlease is building a 789,000-sq-ft mixed-use complex of five buildings in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood.

A 471,000-sq-ft residential high-rise in Brooklyn’s Coney Island will get sustainable heating and cooling from underground wells when open in 2024.

Advancements in enhanced systems could allow geothermal power plant construction just about anywhere in the U.S., agency officials say.