Bringing climate tech into the mainstream means pulling off the near-impossible: replacing familiar, conventional choices with something cheaper, better, and easier to adopt. That’s precisely what Dandelion Energy has accomplished with home geothermal energy.

Kathy Hannun spun Dandelion out of Google X—Alphabet’s lab for moonshot ideas—in 2017, aiming to make geothermal a no-brainer for homeowners: easy to install, cheaper than traditional heating and cooling, and so seamless you barely notice it—except when you see the monthly savings.

How Hannun and her team pulled it off is a testament to their grit, tenacity, and commitment to iterative improvements that led to industry-shifting breakthroughs.

Homes that use geothermal for heating and cooling slash their carbon emissions by up to 75%. Plus, energy prices and grid emissions dip as utilities rely less on high-cost, high-emission peaker plants during peak demand. 

Having launched in the Northeast, with several thousand residential installations completed, Dandelion is now scaling nationally, partnering with installers and production homebuilders like Lennar, one of the largest in the U.S. Soon, geothermal energy will be the standard heating and cooling solution for many thousands of new homes.

Welcome to a supercool future where geothermal comes with the house.

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Guest: Kathy Hannun

Company: Dandelion Energy

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