Presently eleven businesses and industries are taking advantage if it's savings. The town of 4,400 offers an able, flexible, innovative and community-minded workforce ready to meet future challenges. For both new and existing business and industries considering expansion, the Springhill Geothermal Industrial Park has the perfect combination of low-cost energy, low cost land, location, support services and human resources. The catalysts for savings through geothermal energy are Heat Pumps, devices which take heat from a source such as the earth or groundwater, boost it to a higher temperature, and use it for heating buildings or water. A particular advantage of heat pumps is that they can be reversed in the summer to provide cooling.
Heat pumps are relatively maintenance free when compared to conventional air conditioning systems.
The company doubled the size of its operation and equipped it with 11 heat pumps, including one for hot water. Their Springhill plant is entirely climate controlled, environmentally clean and energy conserving. MBB Power Services received the CEA's Industrial Award in 1992. All it takes are two wells drilled to a depth between 50 to 150 meters to reach the warm water, some pipe, and heat pumps in the building. One well draws warm water up while the other returns it back to the mines.