Wood Pellet Heating
With the introduction of the €4,200 ‘Greener Home Scheme’ grant last year, wood pellet boilers and stoves are now a popular choice for domestic heating .
With oil and gas prices probably rising in the future , it will be significantly cheaper to run a heating system on wood pellets. Wood pellet systems are also more environmentally friendly because they use a renewable source of fuel. Supply of pellets may be a problem - but hopefully suppliers will move in to fill ang gaps.
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At first glance, wood pellet boilers appear to be expensive to install in comparison to conventional systems, but this should be outweighed by the running cost savings and environmental benefits over the long term.There are many types of wood pellet heating systems on the market with options available for automatic loading , self-regulated lighting, cleaning and ash removal.
The cost of storing pellets and feeding them to your boiler at the right times, is something that needs to be considered. Many boilers have an integrated ‘day hopper’ that usually holds about 60 kg of pellets which will probably keep the boiler running for just a few days during the winter months. If you do not want to worry about remembering to refill the hopper manually every few days you will need a much bigger store that will feed into the day hopper as necessary, and of course if you can buy them in bulk and store them, the pellets will be significantly cheaper.