The open-source tool for borefield sizing

GHEtool

GHEtool is a tool for borefield calculations, pioneering with novel methodologies and easy, professional reporting. The methods are open-source, built by the community, in order to harness the power of shared knowledge, transparency, and accelerated innovation. With GHEtool PRO, we built further on this open-source version and created an interface with automated reporting to create the ideal tool for professionals in the field.

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GHEtool is a software solution for engineers, construction companies and academia for borefield calculations.

Our mission

DEMOCRATIZE THE ENERGY TRANSITION

GHEtool was founded during the master thesis of Wouter Peere at the KU Leuven (The SySi Team). With the support of Boydens Engineering (part of Sweco) and FH Aachen the open-source code base was released in 2021. With GHEtool, we want to democratize the energy transition by providing access to the technology necessary to expedite geothermal development and facilitate the feasibility of geothermal solutions.

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“Geothermal energy plays an important role in the energy transition, but it comes with some major challenges, w.r.t. sizing, system integration, cost, thermal interference ... With GHEtool we want to offer intuitive software to speed up the design process and to increase the feasibility of geothermal solutions."

Wouter Peere

Founder GHEtool

Why choose us

The complete package

Open-source

Based on an open-source core for borefield sizing, making it transparent, fast to innovate and less vulnerable to errors over time.

Scenario-analysis

Designed to be scenario-based, so it is perfectly suited for comparing different design choices and options, with just a couple of clicks.

Follow-up

Makes it easy to keep track of various design changes during the execution of a geothermal project, so you never lose an overview of their effects.

Reporting

Saves you time, by automatically generating professional pdf reports based on your project. Ready to be sent to the client!

Reachable

We want to be a reachable partner, always ready to discuss new ideas, figure out bugs or advice with more complicated geothermal problems.

Pioneering

Driven by finding new methods and algorithms in order to tackle complex geothermal design problems, in an innovative way.

What's included

DISCOVER ALL FEATURES of GHETOOL

	GHEtool Pro
Easily compare different scenarios
Borefields up to 2500 boreholes
Glycol- and location selector (new in v2.2.0!)
Sizing with an hourly resolution
Automated report generation (download example)
Total-cost-of-ownership (TCO) analysis
& many more...

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Testimonials

Some reviews of our loyal users

The GHEtool is very user-friendly. I use it for a quick screening but also for sizing complex borefields.
It is really easy to compare different scenarios which leads to quick decision making.

GHEtool is a useful and reliable tool to quickly design and optimize borefields.
I like that I can compare different configurations. It’s very intuitive and has lot’s of options.

"Useful tool to look for optimizations of borefields.
Compare different configurations easily and quickly with each other."

“I like to use GHEtool because it is intuitive end easy to use.
Furthermore, I like its extendability thanks to the
open-source nature of GHEtool.”

Designing the ground heat exchanger properly is crucial for our analysis, but there is a lack of commercial software that meets our standards for accuracy and conformity to ASHRAE guidelines. Fortunately, I found GHEtool, an excellent open-source tool with user-friendly features. It is accurate and fast and helped me design the ground heat exchanger for my target facility's HVAC system. The best part is its well-written Python code and GUI, making it easy to use. I am excited for future improvements in GHEtool.

"GHEtool is reliable and fast. The Python setup is easy to integrate for your own use.
The code is well written and can be well understood.
The tool is our favourite for configuring a borefield for the purpose of sector-coupled district planning."