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Heating oil prices are rising, temperatures are falling and heating assistance has been sharply reduced for this heating season.
But the Patrick-Murray administration yesterday announced that an additional $21.8 million through the federal Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program is in the ... | | f you live in the Northeast and heat your home with heating oil, this is a chart for concern. The bearish mood in heating oil futures has been wiped out today. A bearish "head and shoulders pattern" formed in heating oil over the last three months. After breaking down sharply from its right shoulder... | Home heating fuel is about 20 cents a litre more expensive than it was at this time last year. And world markets aren’t indicating a significant drop in the price of a barrel of crude anytime soon.
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| Oil prices plunged as much as 7% Thursday as weak economic data and a strengthening dollar drove crude sharply lower.
The main U.S. oil contract for June delivery were down $6, or 6%, to $103.25 a barrel midday. Brent crude, the European benchmark, fell $6.60 to $114.59 a barrel.
1... | The US Department of Agriculture's Bioenergy Program for Advanced Biofuels is awarding two wood pellet companies almost $300,000 (€218,691) in funds.
$163,000 will be awarded to Woods Pellet Company in Athens, Maine, while Corinth Wood Pellets will receive $125,000.
The federal grant i... | PROVIDENCE — The average price of home heating oil in Rhode Island ticked up this week to reach its highest point since Oct. 6, 2008.
At $3.32 a gallon, the price exceeds the most recent high of $3.24 a gallon, which was recorded two weeks ago. The weekly average is calculated from a survey c... | When the temperatures go down, Gene Buchanan's workload goes up.
That's been the case for many of Buchanan's first 55 years, but especially so since he transformed his Travelers Rest building into a propane business.
Buchanan, a Travelers Rest native and lifelong resident, has always b... | | The price of home heating oil in Rhode Island is at its highest point in more than two years and is expected to stay high for the foreseeable future because of increasing foreign demand for crude oil. | Richmond, Va.-based Enviva LP has won $270,000 in state incentives as part of a plan to build a new wood pellet manufacturing facility in Hertford County, the governor’s office announced Monday.
Enviva, a manufacturer of processed biomass fuel, plans to spend $52 million on the project, whi... |
Heating oil prices are rising, temperatures are falling and heating assistance has been sharply reduced for this heating season.
But the Patrick-Murray administration yesterday announced that an additional $21.8 million through the federal Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program is in the ... | | f you live in the Northeast and heat your home with heating oil, this is a chart for concern. The bearish mood in heating oil futures has been wiped out today. A bearish "head and shoulders pattern" formed in heating oil over the last three months. After breaking down sharply from its right shoulder... | Home heating fuel is about 20 cents a litre more expensive than it was at this time last year. And world markets aren’t indicating a significant drop in the price of a barrel of crude anytime soon.
Doug MacLeod of MacLeod’s Fuels said wholesalers determine the rack price for fuel, not the r... | Oil prices plunged as much as 7% Thursday as weak economic data and a strengthening dollar drove crude sharply lower.
The main U.S. oil contract for June delivery were down $6, or 6%, to $103.25 a barrel midday. Brent crude, the European benchmark, fell $6.60 to $114.59 a barrel.
1... | PROVIDENCE — The average price of home heating oil in Rhode Island ticked up this week to reach its highest point since Oct. 6, 2008.
At $3.32 a gallon, the price exceeds the most recent high of $3.24 a gallon, which was recorded two weeks ago. The weekly average is calculated from a survey c... | | The price of home heating oil in Rhode Island is at its highest point in more than two years and is expected to stay high for the foreseeable future because of increasing foreign demand for crude oil. | (WTNH) - It's the time of year when many homeowners are getting their first heating oil deliveries of the season. That means they're getting their first heating oil bills of the season, and their first big shock of the season because prices are a lot higher than they were last year.
We've b... | WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Energy has released its predictions about what we will all be paying to heat our homes this winter. We will all pay more but those heating with propane or oil will pay the most.
The U.S. Department of Energy says those who heat with natural gas will pay ab... | | In March, HeatingOil.com reported on the latest progress in the case of F&S Oil, the Connecticut heating oil dealer that abruptly shut down in 2008. When F&S closed for business, it owed millions of dollars to wholesale heating oil sellers, employees, vendors, and customers. The Connecticut Attorney... | Heating oil prices are projected to rise modestly this winter, giving homeowners in the Northeast another year of relief from the sky-high prices they were paying two years ago.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration is projecting that average residential prices in the Northeast will clim... |
The US Department of Agriculture's Bioenergy Program for Advanced Biofuels is awarding two wood pellet companies almost $300,000 (€218,691) in funds.
$163,000 will be awarded to Woods Pellet Company in Athens, Maine, while Corinth Wood Pellets will receive $125,000.
The federal grant i... | Richmond, Va.-based Enviva LP has won $270,000 in state incentives as part of a plan to build a new wood pellet manufacturing facility in Hertford County, the governor’s office announced Monday.
Enviva, a manufacturer of processed biomass fuel, plans to spend $52 million on the project, whi... | PINE BLUFF, Ark. (AP) — A fire at a wood pellet plant at Pine Bluff burned up to 850 tons of sawdust but none of the plant workers were injured.
The Thursday fire began at about 5:30 p.m. and burned well into the night. Plant controller John Weaver told the Pine Bluff Commercial that about 20... | The growing demand for energy from biomass is a boon for wood pellet producers but it threatens to drive up costs for the existing pulp and paper sector, says a report by the International Wood Markets Group.
In its monthly report, the Vancouver research firm says the wood biomass energy indu... | | For the 11 years Christine Chaloux has lived in her remote South Starksboro home, she’s relied on fuel from three large kerosene tanks to keep her warm through the winter. Her steep driveway is all but impassable at this time of year, so her fuel arrives before snow flies, and then the 46-year-old w... | ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The state has obtained a court order against a western New York wood pellet company accused of taking more than $200,000 in customer orders but not delivering any products or refunds.
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced the temporary restraining order banning Allegany ... | | The New Fusion pellet stove has an automatic start up cycle that helps the stove to operate automatically. It is incorporated with a room thermostat and also includes a remote thermostat as an option. The average pellet fuel consumed by this stove is 1kg per hour. This wood pellet stove available fr... | Turning sawdust into wood pellets is a real roller-coaster ride as the dust has a few ups and downs to go through along the way to becoming the small cylindrical pellets that are burned in specially-designed stoves.
The Central Plains Herald-Leader visited the Prairie Pellet Company in St. Cl... | Upgrades planned at the Port of Eastport thanks to $4.5 million from the recently approved transportation bond have piqued the interest of two wood pellet producers.
The producers, one local, recently contacted the port to express interest in shipping there, now that the port has the funds to... | I am tired of hauling wood indoors. I saw pellet and corn stoves at my home center store, and they sell the pellets there. Are they convenient to use, and do they produce much heat efficiently? -- Ron H.
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Dear Ron: The new wood pellet and corn stoves are very convenient and ener... |
I dread the mailbox trips in the winter. What will my Puget Sound Energy bill have for me this month?
Dan Whitmore won't have to worry about that this winter. The Rainier Valley man is building the state's first passive house. He says it will cut his heating and cooling bills by up to 90 perc... | | There may be a window in your home that is old and drafty, or even falling apart. You may have a window that sticks, or one that you have to prop open. You’ve tried caulking, taping, driving screws into that old window but there is nothing that you can do to fix it. It is probably time to give up o... | Uncle Sam wants you — to upgrade your home heating equipment and appliances. And he's willing to pay you to do it.
It's a sweet deal, allowing consumers to save money on both the purchase and usage end of the energy equation. But consumers better act fast. Once the funding is depleted, it's g... | With energy bills spiking as the weather gets colder, you're probably looking for ways to save on home heating.
Some power companies estimate bills double or triple this time of year, when families start cranking the thermostat to keep the chill out.
Central Georgia EMC energy auditors... | The cold weather has returned and home heating costs are on the rise. Many are looking for alternative ways to stay warm and that has some people turning to heating stoves.
Sales are heating up at The Warm Up Shop near Williamsport.
"We are seeing more people with all electric houses, ... | Today we have a cautionary tale about an alternative energy technology that holds great hope for New Hampshire. Alas, for the geeks in the audience, it’s cautionary, not because of fun technical issues but because of boring regulatory issues.
Our story begins three years ago, when Richard Gou... | When Lorraine Bloink realized she had to put two children through college, she knew reducing monthly bills was a must.
Buying propane to heat her home was eating up her savings, so she decided to use some extra money to install a geothermal heating system.
"I love it. I am not burning ... | | Recent hikes in the costs of fuel oil and natural gas have many of us looking to alternative sources for home heating. But what is the "greenest" alternative? That is a tough question because it depends on where you live and what fuel is abundant locally. If you live in the Midwest, corn is more ab... | "If people can know to keep things away from your heating source, the better off they'll be," said Jonesboro Fire Department Fire Marshal, Eric Simmons.
With many of us flipping the A/C off and the heat on over the next few weeks, Simmons says make sure heat sources like space heaters are use... | | Find yourself sweating inside your house during the long, hot days of summer? Are high utility costs enough to make you perspire on their own? |
oogle Inc is closing in on its goal of producing renewable energy at a price cheaper than coal, the company's so-called green energy czar, the engineer in charge of the project, said on Tuesday.
The search company in late 2007 said it would invest in companies and do research of its own to pr... |
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