Pellet Stoves and Electricity

Pellet stoves are now the hot way to heat adon't have to manually stoke it more than once a
home. They offer a green, cheap form of energyday at most. On the other hand, the need for
that can effectively heat an entire home, whetherelectricity can make a pellet stove a little less
from radiated heat or by using a forced-airconvenient than a wood-burning stove because if
system. From the sound of it, you might bethe electricity goes out, it will stop feeding pellets
imagining that a pellet stove works just like ato the fire.
more traditional wood-burning stove except in theThis problem can be solved by adding a
fact that it burns pellets. This perception, thoughbattery-operated attachment to the stove, which
common, isn't quite right; pellet stoves actuallycan work in the event that the electricity goes
use some electricity.out. You can also be sure that you have a
Every pellet stove has a hopper that holds agenerator which will power your lights and pellet
certain amount of pellets, which can run the stovestove if the electricity goes out mid-winter. These
for one or two days without attendance andtwo options mean that there is really no reason
reloading. The hopper feeds pellets to the stoveyou should avoid a pellet stove because it takes
on a set basis, and its action is often linked to aelectricity.
thermostat, which tells the hopper when toEven though freestanding pellet stoves take
continue feeding pellets and when to cut off thesome electricity, they will still consume less
supply because the room is warm enough.energy, overall, than furnaces. Besides this, the
This makes a pellet stove convenient because itenergy that they do consume will be much more
can regulate the temperature of your homeclean than that from natural gas or wood-burning
better than a wood stove can and because youstoves.