Service Cleaning & Optimization
It’s important to keep your system running at its best, and True North Energy is here to help you do just that. Give us a call or use the Contact form on our website here to let us know what your needs are, ask any questions that you have, or learn how we can improve […]
What are the Five Best Smart Thermostats?
Lifehacker recently put a call out to their readers to share their experiences using smart thermostats, and asked them to rank and review their favorites. Which ones prevail and which ones fail? Let’s find out: The clear winner for Lifehacker readers is the Nest Thermostat. Sure, there are other smart thermostats, and have been others […]
Heat Pumps 101: 8 of The Most Common Questions About Heat Pumps Explained
Heat pumps are awesome – everyone says that right? But they’re also kind of… magical? Not really, of course. But the technology that drives heat pumps is mysterious unless you’re an expert in physics AND heating and cooling. And most literature on the Internet either wants you to buy a heat pump, or wants you […]
Wood Pellet Boilers
A highly efficient wood pellet boiler is a comprehensive heating solution for your home that can completely replace your oil boiler. Wood pellet boilers use your home’s central heating infrastructure and have a proven track record of cutting heating fuel costs by 30 to 60% and your CO2 emissions by a remarkable 90%. A wood […]
Kedel Wood Pellet Boilers
A Kedel Wood Pellet Boiler is the comprehensive solution that can completely replace your current fossil fuel heating system. Kedel boilers are fully automated wood pellet boilers that use your home’s central heating system and have a proven track record of cutting heating fuel costs by 40-60% and CO2 emissions by a remarkable 90%. With […]
Maine Energy Systems Wood Pellet Boilers
The Maine Energy Systems AutoPellet wood pellet boiler is effortless to use and is ideal for central heating and domestic hot water in many homes and businesses. The AutoPellet is a fully-automated standalone wood pellet boiler designed to meet the demands of households, businesses, municipal buildings and institutions. An AutoPellet wood pellet boiler can help […]
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Service Cleaning & Optimization
Read more: Service Cleaning & OptimizationIt’s important to keep your system running at its best, and True North Energy is here to help you do just that. Give us a call or use the Contact form on our website here to let us know what your needs are, ask any questions that you have, or learn how we can improve…
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What are the Five Best Smart Thermostats?
Read more: What are the Five Best Smart Thermostats?Lifehacker recently put a call out to their readers to share their experiences using smart thermostats, and asked them to rank and review their favorites. Which ones prevail and which ones fail? Let’s find out: The clear winner for Lifehacker readers is the Nest Thermostat. Sure, there are other smart thermostats, and have been others…
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Heat Pumps 101: 8 of The Most Common Questions About Heat Pumps Explained
Read more: Heat Pumps 101: 8 of The Most Common Questions About Heat Pumps ExplainedHeat pumps are awesome – everyone says that right? But they’re also kind of… magical? Not really, of course. But the technology that drives heat pumps is mysterious unless you’re an expert in physics AND heating and cooling. And most literature on the Internet either wants you to buy a heat pump, or wants you…
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Wood Pellet Boilers
Read more: Wood Pellet BoilersA highly efficient wood pellet boiler is a comprehensive heating solution for your home that can completely replace your oil boiler. Wood pellet boilers use your home’s central heating infrastructure and have a proven track record of cutting heating fuel costs by 30 to 60% and your CO2 emissions by a remarkable 90%. A wood…
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Kedel Wood Pellet Boilers
Read more: Kedel Wood Pellet BoilersA Kedel Wood Pellet Boiler is the comprehensive solution that can completely replace your current fossil fuel heating system. Kedel boilers are fully automated wood pellet boilers that use your home’s central heating system and have a proven track record of cutting heating fuel costs by 40-60% and CO2 emissions by a remarkable 90%. With…
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Maine Energy Systems Wood Pellet Boilers
Read more: Maine Energy Systems Wood Pellet BoilersThe Maine Energy Systems AutoPellet wood pellet boiler is effortless to use and is ideal for central heating and domestic hot water in many homes and businesses. The AutoPellet is a fully-automated standalone wood pellet boiler designed to meet the demands of households, businesses, municipal buildings and institutions. An AutoPellet wood pellet boiler can help…
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Hybrid Electric Heat Pump Water Heaters
Read more: Hybrid Electric Heat Pump Water HeatersEach person in the average Maine household uses 20 to 35 gallons of hot water per day, and many households rely on their home’s boiler to heat their hot water for them. While this set up may make sense during the winter months when your boiler is producing heat to keep your house warm, when…
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GeoSpring Hybrid Electric Water Heater
Read more: GeoSpring Hybrid Electric Water HeaterWarm up to lower energy bills! The GE GeoSpring Pro Hybrid Water Heater is one of America’s most efficient domestic hot water heaters, using 67% less energy and saving $370 to $490 per year on utility bills in a typical household of three to four people. The GeoSpring Pro water heater combines energy-saving heat-pump technology…
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AO Smith Voltex Hybrid Electric Heat Pump Water Heater
Read more: AO Smith Voltex Hybrid Electric Heat Pump Water HeaterThe Voltex® hybrid electric heat pump water heater more than lives up to its impressive reputation. The 50, 60 and 80-gallon models use heat pump technology, which means more energy stored, resulting in increased savings. And the user-friendly display is simple to operate and provides easy-to-understand feedback on operational status. Four Operating Modes: Efficiency, Hybrid,…
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Heat Pump Water Heater Rebate from Efficiency Maine
Read more: Heat Pump Water Heater Rebate from Efficiency MaineEfficiency Maine offers a rebate of $300 for qualifying hybrid electric heat pump water heaters. True North offers only heat pump water heaters that qualify for this rebate. Read on for an overview of the heat pump water heater rebate, how to apply for it and what you need to know to move forward with…
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Wood Pellet Boiler Rebate from Efficiency Maine
Read more: Wood Pellet Boiler Rebate from Efficiency MaineEfficiency Maine offers a rebate of 1/3 of the total project cost up to $6,000 for ultra-low greenhouse gas emitting automated wood pellet boiler systems. Read on for an overview of the wood pellet boiler rebate, how to apply for it and what you need to know to move forward with your new sustainable…
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Air Source Mini Split Heat Pumps
Read more: Air Source Mini Split Heat PumpsIf you’ve never considered electric heat, now is the time; heat pumps are more efficient than ever and will eliminate or significantly decrease the amount of heating fuel you use to heat your home or business. Heat Pumps (also called “ductless heat pumps, ” “mini splits” or “air source heat pumps” are most of the…
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Mitsubishi Heat Pumps
Read more: Mitsubishi Heat PumpsMitsubishi Heat Pumps offer a state of the art ductless home heating and cooling system solution that can handle a wide range of needs, from small one-room spaces to large multi-room homes, retail spaces or community buildings such as churches or fraternal halls. Watch the video below to find out more! Most homeowners think that…
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Fujitsu Heat Pumps
Read more: Fujitsu Heat PumpsAs much as half of the energy used in your home goes to heating and cooling. So making smart decisions about a home’s HVAC system can have a big effect on utility bills — and comfort. Fujitsu High SEER Halcyon heat pumps are currently the world’s most efficient heat pumps in North America, with Seasonal…
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Heat Pump Rebate from Efficiency Maine
Read more: Heat Pump Rebate from Efficiency MaineEfficiency Maine offers a rebate of $500 for qualifying air source mini split ductless heat pumps. True North offers many models of heat pumps that qualify for this rebate from Mitsubishi and Fujitsu. The $500 rebate is a one-time incentive that applies to the complete project, and is not applied per heat pump installed. Read…
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Natural Gas Boilers
Read more: Natural Gas BoilersNatural 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 our wood pellet boiler systems; however, natural gas…
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Cord Wood Boilers
Read more: Cord Wood BoilersHigh-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 a renewable, cleaner-burning fuel source that reduces your…
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Switch to Biofuel
Read more: Switch to BiofuelIt 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 waste oil from restaurants around New England to…
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Service, Cleaning & Optimization
Read more: Service, Cleaning & OptimizationMost 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 your system for efficiency to evaluate what can…
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Troubleshooting 101: Your Boiler IQ!
Read more: 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 all the time during the winter months, but…
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Switching to Pellets Reduces CO2 emissions by 90% & Saves 50% on Heating Costs
Read more: Switching to Pellets Reduces CO2 emissions by 90% & Saves 50% on Heating CostsStudies 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 elevated CO2 ranges in New England. Although New…
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Cord Wood vs. Wood Pellets
Read more: Cord Wood vs. Wood PelletsHeating 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 your decision. The allure of cord wood is…
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Thermal Storage for Cord Wood Boilers
Read more: Thermal Storage for Cord Wood BoilersThe 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 wood boiler. A thermal storage tank is a…
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Cord Wood vs. Pellets
Read more: Cord Wood vs. PelletsMaine 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 with cord wood or wood pellets. Both fuel…
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Troubleshooting 101 : Your Boiler IQ
Read more: Troubleshooting 101 : Your Boiler IQHave 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 all the time during the winter months, but…
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Home Performance and New Construction Services
Read more: Home Performance and New Construction ServicesHome 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 your architecture firm, contractor and energy auditor (we…
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Free Home Heating Assessment
Read more: Free Home Heating AssessmentThe 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 one step further, identifying the ways in which…
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Why Get Off Oil?
Read more: 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 heating costs, reducing carbon emissions and investing in…
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EPA Releases Analysis of Emissions from Biomass Fuel!
Read more: EPA Releases Analysis of Emissions from Biomass Fuel!It’s a pretty great time to be a wood pellet here at True North! Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency validated that emissions from sustainably sourced biomass (wood pellets and others) are “likely to have minimal or no net atmospheric contributions of biogenic CO2 emissions, or even reduce such impacts, when compared with an alternate…
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Tips for Choosing A Heating Contractor
Read more: Tips for Choosing A Heating ContractorIt was 10 degrees for much of the morning here in Portland today, which means that unless you enjoy a chilly home, your heating system got a workout last night. Great! That’s what it’s for! But what if your system isn’t performing up to expectations, or – even worse – not performing at all? Just…
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Lee’s Promise
Read more: Lee’s PromiseI made some promises awhile back. I made a promise to myself to reduce the amount of fossil fuel I use. I did it because when I was in the Marine Corps in a faraway desert, I knew that I was helping to secure our country’s oil supply. I did it because I knew that…