Entries by Pauric K

Safe and Secure – Storing your bagged wood pellets

If you buy bagged wood pellets from us…how do you store them? Throw the bags in the garage, leave them out in the garden, or under a protective shelter that protects them from rain? It is essential that you store your wood pellets in a dry condition to get the best results. Ideally keep your […]

Hello Autumn!

As we enter the cold Autumn temperatures, we have put together our usual checklist to help you maintain optimum performance for your biomass boiler set-up this Autumn:   Store is clean – As recommended in our Summer Fuel Store Maintenance Guide. Annual Service completed – Make sure that your biomass boiler is serviced annually by a certified […]

Recycle week 2021

Recycle Week is Recycle Now’s flagship annual event which is a celebration of recycling across the nation. It has now been operating for 18 years and it’s the one week of the year where retailers, brands, waste management companies, trade associations, governments, and the media come together to achieve one goal: to galvanise the public […]

Renewable energy is the way forward for heating poultry houses

Members of our team attended a webinar recently based on providing a renewable, energy efficient solution for heating poultry houses. This was organized and recorded by Teagasc Poultry. Within the webinar, Paula, Colm and Gerard, provided lots of great information on why moving to renewable energy in this specific sector will be better for the […]

Summer Bank Holiday 30th of August

  Our Customer Support office will be closed on Monday, 30th of August for the summer bank holiday. We will reopen as normal on Tuesday, 31st of August. You can still order online 24/7 by visiting our Online Shop:     Balcas Energy Team

5 reasons why you should use wood pellets

Many know what wood pellets are but don’t know their benefits. Here at Balcas, we want our consumers to have as much information as possible when considering buying wood pellets from us. As a reminder, wood pellets are a compressed form of wood biomass and can be used in stoves and boilers for fuel, as […]

BANK HOLIDAY 12th of July

Our Customer Support office will be closed on Monday, the 12th of July (bank holiday) and will reopen as usual, on Tuesday 13th. You can still order online 24/7 by visiting our Online Shop:     Balcas Energy Team

Do you know where your wood pellets are coming from?

Wood pellets are now manufactured and sold in many countries around the world. The uses of wood pellets are varied and include: as a replacement for coal in electricity generation for home heating in a boiler or stove commercial space heating Animal bedding Animal litter trays Industrial heat processes Heating of commercial buildings Barbeques Pizza […]

Summer Check list for your wood pellet boiler

As is our custom every year, we wrote our recommended summer check list for optimal wood pellet fuel performance. Thanks to the gorgeous weather sweeping across GB and Ireland this month, home owners are powering down their wood pellet boiler and dialling back the heat to enjoy the unseasonably warm temperatures. Off-peak periods are the perfect […]