Alternative Energy Information - Wood
Maine Home Energy publications
Learn how to heat your home with wood or other biomass fuels. Download our fact sheets for free or purchase from our online publications catalog.
- Heating With Wood the “Lazy” Way: Plan Ahead
It’s not too late to become a lazy tightwad about firewood. This 4-page bulletin explains how to save time and money, and how to split wood the easy way! - Heating with Wood and Coal
Wood- or coal-burning stoves require that you have a much greater awareness of fuel characteristics and combustion techniques to use the fuel efficiently and safely. This 72-page book reflects technology and code changes affecting the installation of stoves that have occurred since 1985. Designed to be used as a guide when selecting, installing and operating a solid-fuel stove for home heating. Covers evaluation of solid fuels, fireplaces, stoves, furnaces and boilers, installation, chimneys, and cutting/splitting firewood.
Other resources
- Sizing Your Biomass Boiler to Fit Your Needs
If you are considering purchasing a new pellet or biomass boiler, there are several considerations you will want to take into account prior to your purchase to prevent buying an over-sized, less efficient boiler for your home. - Out Door Wood Boiler Regulations
Emissions from outdoor wood boilers can sometimes cause air pollution problems when not sited, installed or operated properly. New Maine state regulations have addressed these concerns by implementing strategies to reduce emissions along with siting requirements for new OWBs and operational practices for both existing and new outdoor wood boilers. The rule addresses the need for cleaner burning units, establishing emission limits that new outdoor wood boilers must meet beginning in April 2008. - Burn Wise
Burn Wise is a partnership program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which emphasizes the importance of burning the right wood, the right way, in the right wood-burning appliance to protect your home, health, and the air we breathe.
