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US household heating equipment choices diverse, vary by climate

 37% of US households supplement main heating equipment with secondary source Data from the 2015 Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) show that the majority of American households use one of three types of equipment as their main source of heat during the winter: natural gas furnaces, electric furnaces, or electric heat pumps, according to the […]

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US plants selling wood pellets to Europe for power generation, home heating

 The West produced and sold the least tonnage, with almost all going to domestic heating market During the first half of 2016, US manufacturers produced approximately 3.3 million tons of wood pellets and sold 3.1 million tons, mostly to foreign markets, according to data from EIA’s newly released Densified Biomass Fuel Report. Wood pellet fuel,

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