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Heating With Pellets in Utah: What a Winter Takes

Heating With Pellets in Utah: What a Winter Takes

Salt Lake City logs about 5,154 heating degree days a year, and that single number does most of the work in deciding whether a pellet stove here runs as…

Heating With Pellets in Texas: What a Winter Takes

Heating With Pellets in Texas: What a Winter Takes

Around Houston, a Texas winter adds up to about 1,266 heating degree days a year, which is a mild number by national standards.

Heating With Pellets in Tennessee: What a Winter Takes

Heating With Pellets in Tennessee: What a Winter Takes

A Tennessee winter isn’t brutal, but it isn’t short either. Nashville’s climate data puts heating demand across roughly seven months, from October…

Heating With Pellets in South Dakota: What a Winter Takes

Heating With Pellets in South Dakota: What a Winter Takes

A pellet stove in South Dakota isn’t a decorative extra: with roughly 7,248 heating degree days a year at Sioux Falls, this is one of the harder heating…

Heating With Pellets in South Carolina: What a Winter Takes

Heating With Pellets in South Carolina: What a Winter Takes

In Charleston and most of South Carolina, a pellet stove is a comfort upgrade, not a substitute for the furnace or heat pump already doing the real work.

Heating With Pellets in Saskatchewan: What a Winter Takes

Heating With Pellets in Saskatchewan: What a Winter Takes

A pellet stove in Saskatchewan works through one of the longest, coldest heating seasons in the country.

Heating With Pellets in Rhode Island: What a Winter Takes

Heating With Pellets in Rhode Island: What a Winter Takes

A pellet stove in Rhode Island works through a genuinely long heating season, but the state’s degree-day numbers put it closer to a moderate New England…

Heating With Pellets in Quebec: What a Winter Takes

Heating With Pellets in Quebec: What a Winter Takes

A Quebec winter isn’t a cold snap you ride out with the thermostat down. It’s a nine-month heating season built on one of the highest degree-day totals…

Heating With Pellets in Prince Edward Island: What a Winter Takes

Heating With Pellets in Prince Edward Island: What a Winter Takes

Charlottetown averages about 4,598 heating degree days a year below 18°C, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1981-2010 normals, a…

Heating With Pellets in Pennsylvania: What a Winter Takes

Heating With Pellets in Pennsylvania: What a Winter Takes

Pennsylvania winters are long rather than extreme, and that shapes everything about running a pellet stove here.

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