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What are Wood Pellets?
Wood pellets were invented in the early 1970's in response to an energy shortage. They are made from a biomass product usually recycled wood waste such as saw dust making it a clean renewable source of energy. Many people in the United States use it as an alternative to oil, coal, electric or wood to heat their homes.
Benefits of Using Wood Pellets: 
- Cost - Pellet fuel is a fraction of the cost of traditional fossil fuels and is cost stable.
- Convenience - Less space is needed to store pellet fuel and it can be delivered in compact bags. New easy to use stoves have auto feed systems which means less work for the user.
- Efficiency - Wood pellets burn at high temperatures reducing the amount of waste product. A 40 pound bag of wood pellets only produces 3 ounces of ash.
- Environment - Pellet fuel is a clean burning all natural fuel that does not contribute to environmental problems like global warming. No trees are cut down for the commercial sale of pellets because waste wood is from manufacturers of other products like furniture.
Burning wood pellets?
 Pellets can be burned in free standing pellet stove, furnace or fireplace insert. Pellet stoves look like wood stoves and give you the ambience of a flame. They come in many shapes and styles and automate as many processes as possible. The most important is fuel delivery. This allows you in most cases to only fill the hopper once a day. What size stove you need depends on the conditions of the environment you are heating.
Pellet Fuel Type
Currently there are two grades of pellet fuel standard and premium. The main difference between the two are their percentage of inorganic ash content. Standard fuel can have up to 3% ash content while premium can only have 1% of ash content.
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