3 Benefits of Heating Your Home With Wood Pellets

Renewable sources of energy

Making wood pellets from carbon-neutral wood fiber is a creative way to use wood waste produced during the production of other goods.

Through the creation of lumber, flooring, cabinets, millwork, and furniture, amazing amounts of wood "waste" (sawdust, wood chips, shavings, etc.) are produced daily.

Pellet producers buy these remaining clean wood residues that would otherwise be viewed as "trash" and transported to landfills and engineer them into an effective heating fuel.

Pellet makers purchased 8.8 million tons of waste from upstream factories making wood products in 2020 alone.



A Vital Low-Carbon Alternative

Burning fossil fuels for energy is a major cause of the atmosphere's rising carbon dioxide levels. By recycling the carbon dioxide released during combustion in the regeneration of the trees produced to meet the demand from the forest products industry, which it depends on for fiber, wood pellet fuel breaks this cycle.

The demand for higher carbon-intensity fossil fuels like heating oil and propane is replaced by the low-carbon option offered by wood pellet fuel for home heating.

Supporting the Local Economy

Wood pellet producers also provide jobs in the logging, trucking, and maintenance industries in addition to those in their own operations.

It's also important to note that wood pellet sales for domestic heating totaled $500 million in 2020, with much of these sales going to independently held small business owners.