The Energy Challenge

Home heating doesn’t get much attention in the clean energy conversation, but the numbers make a strong case for changing that. For the millions of households that heat with oil, there’s a real and immediate opportunity to reduce emissions while improving system performance using a solution that’s already available and already working.

Buildings Are at the Center of the Emissions Picture

Residential energy use accounts for roughly 20% of US greenhouse gas emissions¹, and buildings are the single largest energy user in the country. The trend is moving in the wrong direction too; direct building emissions have increased 8% since 1990.²

Federal sustainability goals call for a 50% reduction in building emissions by 2032 and net-zero by 2045. ² Getting there means putting every practical solution to work now, not waiting on technology that hasn’t scaled yet.

That’s where Bioheat® fuel comes in.

Heating Oil Homes Have a Real Opportunity to Lower Emissions

In the winter of 2023-2024, approximately 4.79 million U.S. households used heating oil as their primary heat source.³ That’s a significant concentration of homes where emissions reductions are achievable today, using legacy infrastructure and equipment already in place.

The Path Forward Doesn’t Require Starting from Scratch

Bioheat® fuel makes that possible by working within what those households already have.

• Local delivery networks serving communities for decades
• Heating systems already installed and running
• No new pipelines or grid updates required; strategically located storage facilities are already in place with stored energy waiting for your call.

¹ PNAS.org
² Office of the Federal Chief Sustainability Officer
³  US Energy Information Administration