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There is a limit…

Last night the weatherman on television was delighted to be able to report that we would see low temperatures like we haven’t seen for years.  In some ways, this was good news to me; I’d get to see how the little pellet boiler would do in our big, old...

A pellet’s a pellet, right? Well, sort of!

In the interest of disclosure, I am a Director of Maine Energy Systems. Burning wood pellets for home heating is a wonderful way to reduce one’s carbon footprint.  Wood pellet fuel is considered by scientists to be a carbon neutral fuel because the carbon...

First refueling with bulk pellet delivery

In the interest of disclosure, I am a Director of Maine Energy Systems. When my MESys 4000 (wood pellet fired boiler system) was installed and ready to run, we loaded 3,120 pounds of wood pellets carefully into the fabric pellet storage bin in my basement.  My bin is...

Pellet boiler ash removal

In the interest of disclosure, I am a Director of Maine Energy Systems. After burning 0.64 tons (1280 pounds) of Energex wood pellets according to the data made available by the Janfire NH pellet burner on my system, I decided to remove the ash today to begin to get a...

Converting a house to pellet boiler heat

In the interest of disclosure, I am a Director, and one of the founders, of Maine Energy Systems. For nearly two years, I have worked with Les Otten and Bill Strauss to create Maine Energy Systems, a company introducing and distributing fully automatic, European,...