Micaul Solar Wood Pellet Boilers

Wood pellets are made from the dry sawdust of waste wood, and are much easier to transport and handle than other forms of wood fuel. They are formed at high pressure to produce an extremely dense fuel of consistent quality, and have a very low moisture content. Together, these properties make wood pellets ideal for use in fully automatic small-scale heating systems. In a house or business premises they can directly replace oil or gas as a primary energy source for central heating and production of hot water.

Sustainable and Clean

Wood is a renewable resource: the amount of carbon emitted as it burns is equivalent to the amount of carbon which was absorbed as the tree grew. Additionally, wood pellets are normally manufactured from sawmill waste which could otherwise become a landfill problem, so diverting it to become a sustainable fuel source is doubly advantageous from an environmental perspective. It is true that a small amount of energy is used in manufacturing wood pellet fuels, but this is less than the amount of energy used, for example, in refining crude oil. And as wood pellets are increasingly produced in the UK the environmental impacts of transporting this fuel are also lessened - and of course, the impact of transporting wood pellets is significantly less than the damage caused by obtaining foreign oil and transporting it literally half way around the world.

Convenient and Surprisingly Cheap
 

The Ökofen automatic wood pellet heating systems we supply are available in a range of sizes to suit anything from a small, energy-efficient house to an office or business premises. They are fully automated and only require refuelling once every twelve months, so are every bit as convenient as an oil or gas heating system. Wood pellets are now available in bulk in the UK, and are priced at between £130 and £150 per tonne. This equates to 3p per Kwh of energy or less, compared to at least 3.65p for oil and 4.45p or more for LPG. And when you consider than oil and gas prices are likely to continue to rise in the future, wood pellets look like an even more attractive option.

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