We have a sort of love-hate relationship with our pellet stove. My wife leans more toward the latter, while I see the benefits outweighing the negatives. In this column I’ll outline the primary ...

With the winter coming, CNET's Martin LaMonica gets a fresh load of home heating pellets and takes stock of the growing mix of home energy options. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green ...

With extreme cold weather and energy bills on the rise, many homeowners are taking a closer look at heating alternatives like ...

Wood pellet stoves typically cost between $1,600 to $4,000 and can be room heaters or furnaces connected to an existing system. A bag of pellets costs $4 to $5 and provides roughly the same heat as ...

MARCELL -- Tink Birchem believes she has a solution to high heating prices as well as all the pollutants they produce. She and other investors are putting millions of dollars into making what they ...

VAIL – Mark Mathis was selling wood-pellet burners, but he couldn’t get wood pellets.Then he looked at the dying, pine-beetle-infested trees around him in the High Country.”It was a perfect fit,” ...

During a late winter snowstorm in North Hudson, highway crews filled trucks with sand. Snowplows carved into the drifting banks of white. Inside the garage it was toasty. “You can tell it’s quite warm ...

The New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission has made changes to its wood-pellet heating rebate program so that more wood-pellet boilers and furnaces now qualify for the rebates. The PUC made two ...