Biomass pellet stoves are one of the cheapest ways to reduce your household's carbon footprint. As a perfect complement to solar panels, they can be used as part of your home's everyday use. But the continents need to start promoting this model because they are mostly used only today. solar panel.
Solar panels are the future path for millions of American families. But their size is not enough to carry the heating load of most of the country's homes. A pellet furnace can easily provide 50% to 90% of millions of American homes. Heating demand, and the price only 3,000 to 5,000 US dollars.
All states that have a solar incentive budget should include incentives for biomass pellet furnaces. Many of the highest incentives for solar power generation are also very suitable for pellet furnaces. One of the best arguments for states: Not only pellets can reduce fossils. Fuels are used in a cost-effective way, and they can also reduce the need for contaminated wood stoves. If the states have been more active in guiding people to use pellet furnaces in the past decades, fewer families will install old used wood stoves. In order to avoid dismantling it later through an expensive furnace change program.
When the Green Heat Alliance launched a favorable tax rebate program for the pellet stove in Maryland, we provided data showing that the state is providing tax revenues to the wealthiest households to promote solar panels, while ignoring the middle-income households The pellet furnace market. This is the unreasonable use of taxpayers' money. The pellet furnace can reduce the fossil fuel use of the installed solar panels by about one-third.
I used wood stoves for heating for many years in a 2,000-square-foot house in Maryland. Even with the use of dry wood and a very attentive operator, I was frustrated. They often produce too much smoke. This year, I turned The pellet furnace. Now, I just press the button in the morning, the stove can run clean all day. Every other day I add a bag of granules. Once a week, I pour a few cups of ultrafine ash from the ash box. When I leave, my wife or son can also easily operate the stove. The wood stove is suitable for less populated areas, and there will always be a strong sense of follow-up, but the particle furnace should have an incentive and can introduce hundreds of Million new energy-saving consumers.
The solution is to promote renewable energy as a medium. When the family installs solar panels, encourage homeowners to add particle furnaces at the same time and invest in them.
The fundamental problem at the moment is that solar photovoltaic products have a high brand awareness and they have powerful advocacy groups. They need it. Of course. But our stove should also get a place in the market.
The incentive plan is always a key factor in excluding the stove industry. The states are unwilling to provide rebates for each type of equipment. The incentive mechanism is the cleanest and most efficient, and it is only acceptable to the industry, otherwise it will be difficult to establish cohesion. And coherent and become part of the island tax rebate program.
Beautiful appearance of the modern pellet furnace There are six obstacles to the promotion of particle kiln in our community. Some obstacles are self-imposed. All of these can be overcome through strategic partnerships and messaging:
1. In essence, the industry association representing the particle furnace includes all members and does not push the pellet furnace above the stove, or even push it over the gas stove.
2. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulates air quality and is more in favor of clean certification than dirty certification.
3. The two particle associations BTEC and PFI mainly represent fuel producers, not furnace manufacturers. They have broader goals and do not usually push the use of particles from one end to the other.
4. Some state and regional groups are primarily concerned with the use of locally produced particulates, which means they only focus on mass delivery to local houses, businesses and institutions. Bags of pellets may come from Canada or more distant countries, and thus constitute a local granular industry. Threatened.
5. Most of the plans to promote pellet furnaces require households to replace previously old, uncertified timber stoves. When the state should provide incentives for any household to add pellet furnaces, this limits the market.
6. The promotion of particle heater incentives focused on particulate boilers, which led to the success of boiler subsidy efforts in most of the Northeastern states. These are all important programs we support 100%, but they can also include stoves.
These are some of the obstacles that we have seen, but they are far more difficult to overcome. The first step is to collect key stakeholders in our community and target one or two continents. We need good materials and we need to work through many years of effort. The main participants met.
Low oil prices and warm winter are the biggest obstacles to the rapid growth of the pellet furnace industry. The country's support may only go so far, but it brings other benefits. If the pellet furnace is still not widely accepted as a renewable energy future in the next decade The key part, then they may be downgraded to an average player indefinitely. We don't have much time to waste.
Author: John Ackerly Green Union Chairman
Jackerly@forgreenheat.org
