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Natural Gas Boilers

Natural Gas Boilers

Natural gas is an affordable, domestically-produced, easy to use alternative to heating oil whose cost industry experts say will remain relatively stable for the foreseeable future.  If you are considering a switch to natural gas for primarily environmental reasons, we encourage you to take a look at

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Cord Wood Boilers

Cord Wood Boilers

High-efficiency Tarm wood gasification boilers are easy to start, smokeless, and can reduce your heating bill by 75% or more. If you have access to abundant cord wood, heating your home with a cord wood boiler has never been more efficient, clean or easy.  Cord wood is

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Switch to Biofuel

It is inexpensive and simple to reduce your home’s carbon footprint by 30% with Bio-Optimization from True North Energy Services.  We’ll optimize your oil boiler to use less fuel and set it up to use renewable B20 biofuel from Maine Standard Biofuels.  Maine Standard Biofuels uses recycled

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Service, Cleaning & Optimization

Service, Cleaning & Optimization

Most Mainers have an oil boiler heating their homes.  And whether it’s one year old or thirty, True North can help you maintain your boiler and optimize it for efficiency so that it uses as little oil as possible to keep your home warm.  First, we check

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Troubleshooting 101: Your Boiler IQ!

Have you ever found yourself without heat on the coldest night of the year? Did you call a heating contractor for emergency after-hours service only to find out you were out of fuel or had accidentally cut the power supply? If so, don’t feel bad! This happens

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Switching to Pellets Reduces CO2 emissions by 90% & Saves 50% on Heating Costs

Switching to Pellets Reduces CO2 emissions by 90% & Saves 50% on Heating Costs

Studies show that switching from oil to wood pellets for home heating reduces your carbon footprint by 90% and saves 50% on heating costs. This is wonderful news for the more than 440,000 Maine and 350,000 New Hampshire residents heating with oil who are contributing to the

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Is Natural Gas Available In My Neighborhood?

There are three natural gas utilities serving Maine.  To find out if you have natural gas available in your area, use the following resources, email us, or call us at 207-221-5677 and one of our Energy Advisers will walk you through up to date information on the

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Cord Wood vs. Wood Pellets

Heating with Cord Wood vs. Wood Pellets Deciding whether to heat with wood or pellets can be either a simple decision or a complicated one depending on where you are in the process. The chart below breaks down the benefits of each to help you fine tune

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Thermal Storage for Cord Wood Boilers

The Benefits of Adding Thermal Storage to Your Cord Wood Boiler System: A wood fired gasification boiler can be installed in your home with thermal storage or without thermal storage, but to keep your system truly efficient, True North recommends that you add thermal storage to your

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Cord Wood vs. Pellets

Cord Wood vs. Pellets

Maine has a long history of heating with wood – with forests covering 90% of the land in Maine, many of us have access to cord wood to heat our homes.  However, once you’ve decided to get off oil, you may need to consider whether to heat

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Troubleshooting 101 : Your Boiler IQ

Troubleshooting 101 : Your Boiler IQ

Have you ever found yourself without heat on the coldest night of the year? Did you call a heating contractor for emergency after-hours service only to find out you were out of fuel or had accidentally cut the power supply? If so, don’t feel bad! This happens

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Home Performance and New Construction Services

Home Performance and New Construction Services

Home Performance is an area of building science that focuses on creating a comprehensive solution to fixing comfort and energy efficiency problems in a home, or examining the building envelope for a new home that prevents these issues during the construction process. True North will work with

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Free Home Heating Assessment

Free Home Heating Assessment

The first step in upgrading your heating system is a free in-home visit from a True North Energy Advisor.  Our highly skilled team are trained to ask the right questions to understand your needs and the behavior of your home’s current heating system, but we take it

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Why Get Off Oil?

Why Get Off Oil?

Learn about the economic, social, environmental and political reasons to stop using fossil fuels to heat your home. There are many economic, social, environmental and political reasons to stop using fossil fuels to heat your home, but we think the simplest ones are the best: lowering your

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Financing Options

Financing Options

Learn about loans, rebates and other financing options to improve your home’s heating performance.  Click here for information on rebates.  

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