Wood, a natural and renewable fuel, is the ideal solution for safe, sustainable heating. Using sunlight, trees produce the oxygen that is essential for life. The CO2 emissions from burning wood are comparable with those from natural decomposition in the forest. Wood heating helps to preserve the fragile balance of the carbon cycle. Burning wood is better for the environment than burning oil, coal or gas, because wood has less contaminants and unlike fossil fuels, is renewable. Wood is abundant in New England, stimulating the local economy rather than importing foreign oil. The drawbacks to burning wood have been the inconvenience of handling the cordwood and the inefficiencies of smoldering wood when the air supply is closed down to control the burn, causing dangerous creosote production. The answer to these problems is wood pellets.

Wood pellets start as waste from the lumber and woodworking industry and cordwood chips. The wood is dried and processed through a pellet machine. There are no additives, just wood. Premium quality pellets have very little bark which produces less ash.

The pellets are delivered to your home or business and stored in a storage room or tank much like oil storage. They can be inside or out as long as they are kept dry. A ton of pellets is equal to about 100 gallons of oil.

From the storage tank or room they are fed automatically to a hopper on the Pellematic boiler either with an auger or vacuum system.