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2008 Wood Stove / Fireplace Rebate Program

Upgrade your wood-burning stove or fireplace and SAVE!

The Air District's Board of Directors has approved $500,000 to be spent beginning in the spring of 2008 on incentives for wood stove and fireplace changeouts in the nine-county Bay Area.  The program is currently being developed and details will be available shortly.  If you would like to have information sent to you once it's available, send us an e-mail at sparetheair@baaqmd.gov.

Why Change Out Your Wood Stove or Fireplace?

Older wood stoves and fireplaces emit far more air pollution than newer U.S. EPA-certified wood-burning appliances or heaters using other fuels. These emissions can affect your health and that of your neighbors.

Consider heating your home without burning wood. Or consider a natural gas stove or fireplace, which burns clean, starts easy, and costs less to operate. Gas stoves and fireplace inserts come in many sizes and styles, can fit inside an existing fireplace, and produce lots of heat and little smoke.  Old wood stoves can produce more than 400 times as much particulate pollution as gas stoves.

New wood stoves have advanced well beyond the traditional pot-bellied model. These stoves produce abundant heat, little pollution, and use less wood. Older model wood stoves may produce up to 30 grams of particulates per hour, but a newer EPA-certified wood stove produces no more than 7 grams per hour by controlling air flow and temperature for an efficient burn.

Pellet stoves, which use a renewable fuel, are among the cleanest burning — they produce about 1 gram of particulates per hour. For a list of EPA-certified wood stoves and fireplaces, visit www.epa.gov/woodstoves.