The Ketchikan airport has one. So does the Walter Sobeloff Building in downtown Juneau. Now, a fringe group of homeowners are installing wood pellet boilers to heat their homes. Not to be confused ...

In a move that would be good for the region’s wood-based economy Maine Energy Systems of Bethel, Maine plans to start building automated, wood-pellet boilers in the United States instead of importing ...

Maine Energy Systems says it will lock in a pellet price equivalent to $1.99 a gallon of heating oil if a customer buys one of its pellet boilers. As heating oil prices rise, a Bethel-based company ...

The price hikes and supply crunches that have clobbered fuel supplies and raised prices throughout the world are starting to affect the one fuel we can call our own: Wood pellets. “There is quite a ...

Pforzheim (pts020/10.07.2009/13:50) Wood pellets are increasingly the fuel of choice in new and renovated municipal buildings: According to the German Energy Pellets Association (DEPV), more and more ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - No way was Ginger Rice going to put up with another year of $300-a-month heating bills. So when she heard natural gas prices would climb even higher this season, Rice did the only ...

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The high cost of electricity to manufacture wood pellets has driven a Boothbay pellet manufacturer out of business. The Boothbay Register reported that Erik Carlson is a certified forester and logger ...

ANSON -- Students here will no longer sit in classrooms that are warmed by heating oil. The school district is instead turning to an abundant Maine resource: wood. An ...