Choosing the right Biomass fuel for your Home

If you chose an Ökofen boiler it comes with a bulk fuel store made from steel reinforced fabric on a sustainable wooden frame, into which the delivery lorry blows the pellets. This style of store has a number of advantages… Namely, it acts as its own dust filter when the pellets are delivered; it can ...

It never ceases to amaze me that my home can be heated by a handful of continuous burning wood pellets! Super compressed sawdust is all that they are – with the natural lignin in the wood acting as a glue to stick them together. Because they are small and uniform in size (6mm diameter and ...

A factor with wood chips which needs careful consideration is your storage capacity. There are three important questions you will need to ask yourself before committing yourself to choosing this type of biofuel for your biomass heating system. How much space do you have for a store? How much energy will that store contain? and ...

Yes, as the name implies, these are chips of wood! They are the cheapest form of biomass fuel suitable for large-scale automation.

A huge part of your home’s carbon footprint comes from the energy used to heat it. The average home can reduce its carbon footprint by 6 tonnes when switching from oil to wood pellets. And if you are keen to maximise your carbon savings then biomass is the right option. Converting from gas to biomass ...

On the face of it, looking at price per tonne, wood chips appear to win hands down. A tonne of wood chip at 30% moisture content will set you back £80-£90, while a tonne of wood pellets will be around £195 per tonne. However, a tonne of wood pellets contains more energy than a tonne ...