Wood pellet delivery and costs

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Wood pellet delivery

Pellets can be delivered in bags of various sizes up to one ton. One ton bags are delivered on a pallet and are perhaps the most versatile way of getting pellets as they can be stored in almost any dry space. But buying in bags is the most expensive way of buying pellets, sometimes twice the price of buying in bulk.

Pellets can also come by truck where they are tipped out from the truck or blown through a tube into a wood pellet store. Often these loads come at a minimum of 5 tons but works out much cheaper. You have to have a dedicated pellet store which can be either inside or outside your house.

Wood pellet costs

Below are the comparative costs of various fuel types. Here expressed as the cost per unit of energy:

Information source: The Biomass Energy Centre
Here expressed as cost per unit weight:

Information source: Forestry Commission: A WoodFuel Strategy for England