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.