What are wood pellet heaters?
Wood pellet heaters burn pellets made from compressed recycled sawdust. They are available as freestanding stoves, fireplace inserts, and even furnaces and boilers. At the heart of pellet heat technology, a thermostat controls a slowly turning auger to feed pellets to the fire from a storage hopper. This provides highly efficient and automated heating. A pellet stove or fireplace insert can run unattended for one to six days on a hopper load of fuel, while furnaces and boilers can be set up with automatic feed systems so they can run independently. Pellet heat has many benefits: Economical – Heating your home with wood pellets is cheaper than heating with gas, oil, or electricity. You will save money! Proven technology – In wide use throughout Europe, as well as more than 400,000 households in North America, pellet heat is a highly evolved technology. Green & clean – Wood pellets are a renewable energy made from otherwise discarded sawdust. Pellet stoves burn renewable fuel with almost
