Crude oil, from which heating oil is refined, is set to average $34.60 per barrel in 2016, representing a steep drop from the $93.17-per-barrel average of 2014.
According to estimates, customers can save up to $1,262 on space heating and more than $300 on water heating costs annually by using appliances powered by natural gas instead of other common energy choices.
Chesapeake Utilities Corp. announced that it has acquired the operating assets of Austin Cox Home Services Inc. Based in Salisbury, Md., Austin Cox provides HVAC, plumbing, and electrical services to residential and commercial customers throughout the lower Delmarva Peninsula.
Installations of natural gas generator sets (gensets) are expected to grow from 2013 to 2018 to a total of 60 gigawatts of capacity, becoming a nearly $10 billion market by 2018, according to a new report from Pike Research, a part of Navigant’s Energy Practice.
Webster Engineering offers an ultra low NOx burner (9 ppm) on natural gas. It is available with dual fuels without changing burner parts, linkageless controls, TEMP A TRIM burner control or O2 trim, and variable frequency drive.
In my mind, there wasn’t much the residential market could throw at me. I should have guessed something was up by the half-amused look on my customer’s face when he described the problem as “a real hair raiser,” and that a measure of caution was in order … but what could be dangerous about a small furnace?