Date: December 20, 2021
After another year of tumultuous weather, climate-change scientists have renewed calls for legislation to change our energy use in both transportation and building heating.
However, the cost to electrify heating remains a major problem. According to data from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, the cost to convert a 1,700-square-foot home averaged more than $21,000. That doesn’t include water heaters and other appliances or the cost to remove existing fossil-fuel equipment and heat-distribution systems like baseboards or radiators.
Fortunately, Bioheat fuel enables consumers to contribute immediately to greenhouse-gas (GHG) reduction goals while keeping their existing oil-fired systems. No huge financial outlays, no home disruptions, and no being at the mercy of the electric monopoly.
Bioheat fuel helps reduce the load on the electric grid, which will become increasingly important as the economy becomes more electricity-dependent. As we have seen, renewable electricity generation is financially intensive and environmentally conflicted, and it will require years before it meaningfully impacts our climate goals. Adding electricity now makes little sense until we can make the grid more renewable.
Governor Baker has mandated that all state buildings that heat with oil must use a minimum 10% blend of biodiesel.
By combining renewable biodiesel with ultra-low sulfur heating oil, we come up with Bioheat® fuel’
You can read more about Bioheat fuel here.
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