About Wood Pellets

Wood Pellets

Wood pellets are heating fuels made from wood or plant by-products, most often sawdust or wastes from sawmills or wood products manufacturers. They are a compressed biomass product, produced with a low moisture content for optimal burning time and temperature. Wood pellets are stored and distributed in various bags sizes or, in bulk in large silos where delivery trucks are loaded for distribution to the storage units of the customer. From here, unless it is a small pellet boiler using bagged pellets, the entire system is automated. The pellets are mechanically delivered to burner, and the boiler provides hot water to your baseboard radiation, radiators or radiant floor heating system as well as domestic hot water for your kitchen and bathrooms.

BENEFITS OF BURNING WOOD PELLETS

Payback time average: 5 to 10 years
Savings on annual heating costs
Zero carbon taxes on biomass fuel
Local economic growth: manage resources, create employment and generate savings
Reduce dependency on fossil fuels
Use a renewable resource
Significant contributions towards sustainable development
Reduces greenhouse gases

CLEAN-BURNING / CARBON-NEUTRAL / NON-TOXIC

WOOD PELLET DISTRIBUTION

With the demand for wood pellets only increasing in the NWT, the government has placed a priority on researching and developing distribution options for the broad range of customers installing wood pellet boiler systems. Energy North will stay abreast of the developments in order to help our clients obtain access to wood pellets in the easiest and most economical method available.

With our current network of wood pellet distributors, we can assist you in selecting the fuel supplier that will be most convenient to your location and needs. Supplying wood pellets for a region is also an opportunity for local business owners or local development corporations. In Norman Wells, a pellet distribution plant was installed by Green Energy NWT Inc. to serve the Sahtu Region. Current methods of bulk wood pellet delivery to some communities include transport by rail or barge, in additional to road delivery.

Green Energy in Norman Wells, NT, has the largest wood pellet storage capacity (1,400 ton) in North America above the 60° parallel.

They serve their clients with 3 Trucks, that blow the pellets into storage containers, all with the latest weight-scales.

WOOD PELLET DISTRIBUTORS IN THE NWT

Nine (9) Wood Pellet Trucks from independant wood pellet distributors can deliver Wood Pellets in Bulk the five (5) regions of the NWT.