Wood Fuel Pellets
Premium Hardwood Pellets
Avg. BTUs: 8,000 BTUs/lb. – 320,000/bag
Avg. Ash Content: 0.50%
Use them in freestanding stoves, fireplace inserts, furnaces and boilers.
Available in:
- 40lb bags
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Great for any pellet stove. Open bag and fill the pellet hopper with pellets. Enjoy the steady warmth and heat that American Wood Fibers Pellets offer. Add pellets as needed to keep your stove burning. Your pellets will burn for two to 12 hours depending on the capacity of your pellet tray.
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The Pellet Fuels Institute evaluates and grades pellet fuel to ensure that consumers can make informed decisions about purchasing pellet fuel. American Wood Fibers is proud to be one of the first pellet suppliers to achieve certification for consistent, reliable, and high-quality bagged fuel pellets under the new, more stringent standards program.
American Wood Fibers Certification under the New Pellet Fuels Institute Standards Program
Learn more about the PFI grading program
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Longer Burning
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Latest in processing technology ensures pellets burn longer and hotter, with 320,000 BTUs per bag on average.
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Less ash
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AWF Premium Hardwood fuel pellets meet the highest industry standards and produce less ash than other brands of pellets.
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Cost-efficient
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The price of biomass fuel is remarkably stable—unlike oil and natural gas—so you avoid unexpected price hikes that can ruin your heating budget.
Frequently asked questions
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Use our pellet fuel calculator to compare the cost of using wood pellets to natural gas, propane, coal, electric, fuel oil and even hardwood. You’ll be pleasantly surprised at how much you can save.
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- A typical homeowner uses 3 tons of pellets per heating season at a cost of about $750. At an average retail price of $250/ton, pellets offer a fuel cost per million BTU of $19.05. To offer a fuel cost of $19.05 per million BTU, # 2 fuel oil and propane would have to be priced at $2.05/gal and $1.36/gal, respectively! (Fuel Value Calculator, USFS, 2008)
- One ton of wood pellets has the energy equivalency of 118 gallons #2 fuel oil. (Energy Information Administration)
- Pellet stoves have extremely low particulate emissions due to their high burn efficiency and the density of the fuel (<1 gm/hr). (Environmental Protection Agency)
- Every ton of pellets used compared to the same amount of oil reduces CO2 emissions by about 1.5 tons. Total emissions offset this year will be nearly 4.5 million tons of CO2.
- Wood pellets have a fossil energy ratio (net energy output/fossil energy used) of 12:1. (Net Energy Value Study, University of Wisconsin Green Bay)
- According to the latest available statistics, pellet manufacturing directly employs approximately 2,300 people in the U.S. and supports thousands of industry-related jobs in fields such as transportation and logging. (North America’s Wood Pellet Sector, Spelter & Toth, 2009)
