Sentences with phrase «wood pellet heating»

By diversifying the thermal energy sector to increase use of low - carbon renewable heating and cooling technologies (e.g., air source heat pumps, ground source heat pumps, wood pellet heating, solar thermal), Rhode Island can make significant strides toward achieving greenhouse gas emission reduction goals while producing substantial economic benefits for the state.
The first section reopened just over a year ago with natural - wood «cocoon» bunks, energy - efficient wood pellet heating and cantilevered window nooks affording views of the Bavarian Alps, where a resident outfitter arranges mountain biking and ski trips; the next phase, with a bistro and lounge, is set to be completed by 2015, along with LAVA's second hostel, in Bayreuth.

Not exact matches

Pellet cookers use a power - driven auger to feed compressed wood pellets from a hopper into a burn pot that produces heat (and smoke) inside the cooking chamber.
Pellet cookers need to use «food grade» pellets, not the less expensive (and more available) heating pellets that are made from a variety of wood that is often recycled scraps.
Turn all but one burner off and reduce the heat to medium - low; add wood chips or pellets to a smoker tray over the burner in use.
The recent regs against wood boilers are a direct hit against poor rural residents who can not afford propane or pellets to keep their homes warm in the winter — apparently there are no DEC bureaucrats in need of heating assistance.
CHEC warns, though, that hearth fires, even with an insert, can not heat large spaces as efficiently as free - standing wood, pellet or gas stoves.
The German Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) still encourages such usage until 2019, e.g. by subsidizing the generation of heat from wood energy with feed - in tariffs or by granting investment subsidies for heating installations such as wood pellet or wood chip heating systems.
Utility - grade wood pellets are used as a substitute for coal in both converted and co-fired power generation and combined heat and power plants.
The entity operated a combined heat and power manufacturing plant and was not engaged in our core business of producing and delivering utility - grade wood pellets under long - term off - take contracts.
Biomass heating systems burn wood, predominantly in the form of pellets, to provide buildings with space heating, process heating and hot water requirements.
The new school will generate 10 per cent of its energy requirements using a biomass wood pellet burning boiler to provide heating, and a photovoltaic array to generate additional electricity to the grid.
Two Washington schools will use wood pellets as a primary heat source to test energy efficient boiler systems.
Electricity is locally produced by a photovoltaic power station that covers about the 60 % of the annual consumption; heating and AC systems use a heat pump powered by photovoltaic panel, thermal solar panel produce up to 100 % of the hot water used in bathrooms; during winter a pellet (compressed wood) high efficiency heating system can guarantee a comfortable warm temperature in all the houses.
Conversion of coal plants to burn wood, dedicated new - build wood burning power plants as well as combined heat and power and biomass boilers for heating are creating huge new demand for wood pellets.
Old boilers powered by heating oil can be upgraded to highly efficient wood pellet boilers.
«November 2012: The Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) is set up by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment in a bid to encourage businesses to switch from oil or gas to wood pellet boilers.»
It boasts airtightness of 0.4 air changes per hour, plus a large solar thermal array which can deliver heat to the ventilation system, and a wood pellet stove.
Ad a optional wood pellet or any fueled back up burner and you have anytime power, heat that electricity sales gives you a check back each month even after fuel if needed costs.
These advanced technology heating systems enable consumers to use local wood pellets and cordwood as fuel in a more efficient and cleaner way.
Pellet stoves are similar to wood stoves but burn wood pellets instead of cordwood and radiate heat off of the appliance.
NYSERDA's Renewable Heat NY initiative alongside these new developments enables municipalities, commercial and residential heating consumers to use wood pellets safely and encourage growth in the renewable energy sector for New York.»
Such efficiency is achieved by combined heat and power systems, which use wood to produce both heat and electricity, and by some modern furnaces that burn wood pellets made of dried, ground and pressed wood residues.
Wood pellets have become a popular fuel, but scientists are divided on whether burning wood to produce heat and power can be considered climate friendly.
Some of these renewable sources include solar thermal systems, geothermal heating, ground source heat pumps, air source heat pumps, biomass boilers, wood pellets, wood stoves, and more.
You can use wood pellets to power heat stoves, and they can heat steam, which can be converted to electricity.
* Hint: look for a system which is fully automatic (okay, take a moment to yearn for the rush of heat when opening the pot - belly to add a log and the old - fashioned levers for adjusting airflow) and which uses pellets or another form of fuel designed to deliver consistent burning performance (and say goodbye to «a man who cuts his own wood is twice warmed»).
The government quietly released a new technical study on North American wood pellets for UK biomass last week, but it once again fails to quell an increasingly heated debate
When Lyme native Morton Bailey started his business, Lyme Green Heat he was just a guy in a truck delivering bagged wood heating pellets to residential customers around the Upper Valley heating their homes with pellet stoves.
In fairness to the complexities of translation, the German word «Sorglosigkeit» might also be translated as «carefree - ness,» but either way the message is clear: anyone who bought into the idea that wood pellets can solve climate change issues related to heating with oil or coal has erred.
Perhaps Die Welt really did not want so much to cast aspersions on the Germans using pellets as to signal that rapid growth of wood heating in the rest of Europe, America, Canada, and elsewhere raises concern?
There are solar panels for providing heating and hot water, triple glazing, a wood - pellet fire and a heat exchange system.
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