If you are thinking about buying an outdoor wood-fired boiler, here are some tips from the state Department of Environmental Protection: • Check to be sure it is legal to install and operate one in ...

Interest in wood-fired hydronic heating systems continues to rise along with the price of conventional fuel. One heat source used for such systems, especially in rural areas of North America, is the ...

Thumbs up to the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection’s Outdoor Wood-fired Furnaces Incentive Program, which will make $277,000 available to residents and businesses that want to ...

For those who want to burn cordwood, modern wood-gasification boilers offer mid-80 percent steady-state combustion efficiencies and full-cycle efficiencies in the 70-75 percent range. This is much ...

The city's Legislative and Regulatory Committee will not recommend banning the use of outdoor wood-fired furnaces. However, detailed restrictions will be applied and current furnace owners may be ...

Outdoor wood-fired furnaces would have to be farther away from neighboring homes, have higher smokestacks and older boilers updated to cleaner-burning models by the end of 2020 under a proposed ...

Dickinson Township supervisors passed an ordinance regulating outdoor burning tonight, deciding not to alter contentious restrictions governing outdoor wood-burning furnaces. Supervisors Ray Jones and ...

Upper Saucon Township plans to defend a 2009 ordinance that bans outdoor wood-burning furnaces. Glenn E. and Eleanor M. Cressman filed an appeal with the Zoning Hearing Board after the township zoning ...

Mount Holly Springs Borough Council voted 4-2 to approve a burning ordinance regulating outdoor wood-fired boilers, outdoor burning and open burning in the Cumberland County municipality. No residents ...