Inside NMC’s $20 Million Geothermal Project
By Craig Manning | Sept. 7, 2026
A 96 percent reduction in carbon emissions: That’s the gain Northwestern Michigan College (NMC) expects to get from its new geothermal exchange system. The project has been under construction since May, with drill rigs punching two bores daily deep into the ground beneath the college’s Cherry parking lot. The system will ultimately be responsible for heating and cooling five key buildings on NMC’s campus.
Those buildings – Scholars Hall, the Osterlin Building, the Tanis Building, the Biederman Building, and the Health & Science building – have historically been heated by an aging power plant on campus. According to Troy Kierczynski, NMC’s vice president of finance and administration, the college identified …
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