Bioheat®

Oilheat has a great, green future, and Bioheat® plays an important role. Bioheat is a blend of traditional heating oil and renewable biofuels that are derived from plants and food byproducts. The fuels blend easily and burn flawlessly in existing Oilheat systems.

What are the benefits of Bioheat®?

Produced domestically, Bioheat incorporates biofuel made from crops like soy or from food byproducts. Both sources are renewable and can replace imported oil.
BioHeat is extremely clean burning with reduced sulfur and particulate emissions, making it environmentally friendly. It costs just about the same as "regular oil." You don't have to make any modifications to your burner or tank. You don't have to change your budget plan, payment plan, service contract or warranties.

Here in New York City ...

In July 2010, the New York City Council passed a measure requiring a biodiesel component in all heating oil and a lower sulfur content in oil used to heat apartments and other commercial buildings. This legislation, known as "Intro. 194," would require all grades of heating oils to contain at least 2% biodiesel beginning in October of 2012. Intro. 194 would make New York City a national leader in mandated biofuel use for heating.
At the same time Intro. 194 was enacted, Governor Paterson signed a bill into law that will limit the sulfur content of heating oil in New York State to 15 parts per million, effective July 1, 2012.
New York State encourages the use of Oilheat/biofuel blends with a generous tax credit from January 1, 2008 through January 1, 2012. Residents can claim a direct income tax credit of up to 20 cents for each and every gallon they buy - one cent for each percentage point of biodiesel in a gallon of their heating fuel.

Here are just a few examples of what Bioheat can be made from:

Camelina
Coffee
Cottonseed

Corn
Flax
Pumpkin Seed

Rapeseed
Rice
Sesame

Soybean
Sunflower

Researchers are working on processes to produce biodiesel from algae and other non-food crops.

For more information on Bioheat and its availability, please contact your local Oilheat dealer.