High-quality wood pellets from our own production in the Upper Palatinate. Here you will find everything you should know about our wood pellets.
Wood pellets are standardised, cylindrical pellets made of dried, untreated wood. Sawdust and wood shavings from wood processing, for example, can be used as raw material. The wood is pressed into pellets under high pressure. Thanks to their low water content and high bulk density, wood pellets can be stored in little space. One tonne of pellets needs about 1.5 m³ of storage space.
Wood is a renewable raw material. Burning wood pellets releases CO₂. The carbon it contains was previously absorbed from the atmosphere while the trees were growing. In addition, further greenhouse gas emissions arise along the supply chain, for example from production and transport.
Wood pellets can be an alternative to fossil fuels such as heating oil or natural gas. However, prices for pellets and other energy sources can change depending on market supply, demand, energy prices and other factors.
Residential buildings or small public buildings can be heated all year round with a pellet central heating system. Its three main components are the pellet store, the feed system and the pellet boiler.
The pellet boiler can be supplied by a semi-automatic compact unit whose hopper is filled by hand. In a fully automatic pellet heating system, the boiler is fed by an auger or a vacuum system from a storage room or tank.
Pellet-fired room heaters are available as pellet stoves and heating inserts. They stand in the living room as stoves with a visible flame and give off radiant and convection heat.
Pellet stoves have a hopper separate from the combustion chamber, from which an auger automatically feeds the pellets into the burner pot. Burning times of 24 to 100 hours are possible, and the hopper can be refilled while the stove is running.
The pellet price in Germany is published monthly by the German Pellet Institute (DEPI) and reflects the average price of one tonne of ENplus A1 pellets (delivered in bulk and blown in, within a radius of 50 km).
In Germany, installing a pellet heating system can be subsidised under the Federal Funding for Efficient Buildings (BEG). Current terms are available from BAFA and KfW.
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