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Wood pellets will appeal to you because of its convenience. Several pellet bags can be compactly and easily stored. For example, a ton of pellets will all fit in an area which measures four feet high, long, and wide – an area which is half the space needed to stack a cord of wood. You can store it in your garage, shed, basement or utility room as long as the area is dry. These pellets are also convenient to use because they can easily and cleanly load into a stove hopper. Loading frequency is normally a maximum of only once per day, and may even be less frequent if you use the stove on low settings. If you use wood pellets you are also helping the environment because it is only a by-product, and not a primary user of our renewable resources. It has a lot of other environmental benefits such as clean burn results and a low level of emissions.  With these great benefits and low costs, it is no wonder more households are now switching to wood pellets as a provider of winter comfort in their home.
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 The selling price of pellets currently range from $120 to $200 per ton at an average of $150 per ton or $3 per bag. The price will vary depending on your region. It also depends on the pellets’ availability and season, just like any other heating fuel.
Wood pellets are becoming more and more popular and sometimes the supply does not meet the demand. It would be wise for you to stack bags of pellets during the off season to ensure that you will have a supply for winter. In measuring the right amount of heating that you need for your home, you must consider the tightness or insulation of your home, its layout and size, the level of comfort you desire, and the local climate in your region. An average user will consume one bag (40lbs) of pellets in 24 hours for 1,500 square feet of space that is being heated. Quite economical, don’t you think?
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Wood Pellets General Info |
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Wood is a very attractive fuel for several reasons. It is renewable, burns clean, has low ash, and cheaper than fossil fuels. Specifically, wood in pellet form is superior compared to raw wood and wood chips, which may have several problems. They can be wet, prone to unexpected heating during storage, difficult to handle, can breed fungal spores, and may contain extraneous material. Moving raw wood or wood chips can be expensive too, and we all know that half their weight is water, and most of their volume is air.
 Pellets on the other hand are wood that were cleaned and dried before grounding it to a fine powder and compressing it to make a small cylindrical shaped wood. It has twice the energy per ton, and eight times more energy per cubic meter compared to raw wood or wood chips. Definitely, you will agree that it is the cheapest form of wood as a fuel source to transport or store. The most common of these residential pellets are produced from sawdust and ground wood chips. These are waste materials from the trees that are used to make lumber, furniture and other wood products. All wood pellets come from plants and trees that are harvested when mature. They are called biomass materials. Lignin (resins and binders) that occur naturally in sawdust hold the wood pellets together, so they contain no additives. Your choice of fuel and its price really depends on the biomass waste that is most available to the pellet mills or pellet manufacturers in your region. Similarly, your choice of pellet wood burner appliance design will depend on the fuel that is available. Nut hulls are also palletized in some places, unprocessed shell corn, and fruit pits can also be burned in other pellet stove designs.
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WOOD PELLETS
