The Leading Geothermal Installer for New Hampshire, Maine & Massachusetts

Barrington firm specializes in geothermal power

Ultra Geothermal of Barrington was one of just six Granite State businesses honored at last month’s New Hampshire Business Magazine’s 2011 Lean & Green Awards in Portsmouth. For company President Melissa Aho, the award is just the latest milestone in a journey that began a little more than three years ago

Wild and Scenic Film Festival unites green businesses

Since 2003, the Wild and Scenic Film Festival has informed audiences of current environmental issues. As the largest environmental film festival in North America, it is Wild and Scenic’s mission to spark conversation throughout the country to discover resolutions of these issues.

Meet a Green Alliance business

What: Ultra Geothermal owner Melissa Aho says geothermal’s popularity has risen over the years despite its initial upfront cost. With more than a decade of installations, Ultra has proven that customer savings outweigh those costs. Ultra has installed more than 750 systems

B-Green Collaborative Green Energy e-Magazine: Interview with Melissa Aho, President of Ultra Geothermal

In January, B-Green Collaborative published an article titled “Geothermal Your Home?” in which we discussed using geothermal systems to efficiently condition residential living space.

To complement that article, we recently sat down and spoke with Melissa Aho, President of Ultra Geothermal in Barrington, New Hampshire, a leading residential geothermal installer for New England. What follows is a summary of that interview

Ultra Geothermal finds savings underground

Although the technology is more expensive up front, geothermal energy’s down-the-road savings are unrivaled.

Depending on local geologic conditions, however, one method of harnessing geothermal energy can prove superior to the other, and that’s where Barrington-based Ultra Geothermal has made its mark

Geothermal in New England

Geothermal heat pumps have been used to heat and cool homes since the 1940’s when Robert Webber converted a freezer into a heating & cooling system for his house. Heat pumps now provide many homeowners a comfortable way to maintain constant temperatures throughout the home. There are several considerations, however, that should be looked at prior to installing a system here in New England

Green Collar Careers: Ultra Geothermal President Melissa Aho

When Melissa Aho, 38, joined Ultra Heating & Cooling in 2006, roughly 30 percent of the company’s business was in geothermal. But it didn’t take long before more and more New Hampshire residents started insisting on a cleaner, more renewable source of heat, and soon it became one example of supply and demand that this “green” energy business was happy to serve.

Today, the rechristened Ultra Geothermal is proving that clean energy is the superior source of power

Barrington firm has the proof of geothermal’s benefits on site

Instead of just talking about what a geothermal system can do, Melissa Aho would rather show her customers. “We have three working geothermal systems on site,” said Aho, president of Ultra Geothermal in Barrington. “And we show them the energy bill so that they can see what a properly installed system should cost them for a year cycle,”