What The Long-Term Temperature Forecast for the Puget Sound Means for Your Home Winter is in full swing here in the Puget Sound. And given the La Niña forecast, we’re likely in for more wet, cold winter weather. To help you and your home be better prepared for the remainder [...]
Pumpkins are plentiful, the Seahawks' season has kicked off, and fall is officially here. Our state's weather forecasters have said we're on track for a "La Nina" winter, meaning colder-than-average temperatures and a need for a little more heat in our homes. With Winter on its way, it's best to be [...]
Across the Puget Sound, it’s the height of a record hot summer as well as the height of the home buying season. While heating a home is the last thing most of us want to think about now, it is a necessary logistic to settling into a new home. Winter can often sneak up [...]
Five Things to Know About Cleaner Bioheat #1: Bioheat is a cleaner, renewable option for heating your home or business. Bioheat is an advanced home heating oil made of a blend of traditional petroleum-based fuel and clean, renewable biodiesel. It is an affordable, modern fuel that is better for our environment and [...]
Genesee Energy is a local, family owned business now in its third generation, supplying fuel in the Puget Sound area since 1929. We supply residential & commercial propane for home and industrial use. Thanks to our great customer feedback, we are proud to be the preferred propane propane supplier in Thurston County, Washington. If [...]
Genesee Energy is now delivering propane in Mason County, Washington Local and family owned, Genesee Energy has been committed to the Puget Sound area since 1929. We know you have options for propane in Mason County. In deciding on which company to choose, here are three questions we think you should ask. [...]
What is automatic delivery and how does it work? Automatic delivery is a service we provide to insure you do not run out of heating oil when you need it most. As an automatic delivery customer, we use an algorithm to monitor your usage, so you don't have to. Our calculations are based on [...]
Is it time to change your furnace air filter? Yes. Every 3 to 9 months, it's time to change your furnace air filter. Just as your car needs it's oil changed, or your smoke detectors need new batteries, your furnace air filter needs to be changed or cleaned every 3 [...]
First, what is Carbon Monoxide? Carbon Monoxide (CO) is an odorless and colorless gas that when not properly vented can cause severe illness or death. It is often referred to as the "silent killer" because early symptoms are often overlooked. CO is found in fumes produced after burning fuels in cars, stoves, lanterns, [...]
Defining Natural Gas and Propane What is Natural Gas? Natural gas is a fossil fuel, extracted from below the earth's surface. Natural gas is mainly composed of methane, but it is actually a mixture of gasses, containing smaller amounts of propane, butane, and ethane. What is Propane? Propane is a byproduct [...]
The reality behind the myth December, 2018 Most new homeowners barely give it a second thought. One of the first things on their list of things to do, is switch out their heating oil furnace to natural gas equipment. It has been the common ideology for decades, that gas is good, and oil is bad. [...]
October 2018 For over 90 years, Americans have been using heating oil to heat their homes. Despite the test of time, heating oil remains one of the most misunderstood sources of energy in Seattle. For starters, heating oil is not the black, thick crude oil most people conjure up in [...]
July, 2018 Fill-'er-up Fridays It doesn't get much better than summer in Washington State. And, nothing says summer like camping, barbecuing, and spending long evenings around a fire pit. Since propane is a key ingredient for each of these activities, this summer, we're starting something new. Every friday all summer long at our Monroe [...]
June, 2018 Many people think if they had any sort of furnace failure which required a service person to come fix it, they should be good to go for a while and don't need a tune-up. But just as with your car, fixing a flat tire is not the same thing as changing your [...]
Seattle Has the Ideal Climate for Mini-Split Ductless Air Conditioners For the same reason Seattle sells the most sunglasses per-capita, when the spring temperatures arrive, Seattleites repeat their yearly quarries on installing air conditioning, having forgotten the heat summer can bring. We don’t need it very often, or for very long, but when we do, [...]
The topic of Energy comes up more and more frequently and in more and more situations these days. Within the last ten years, people are wanting more and more control over their own energy supply. They want to be more efficient, dependable, greener and cheaper. It is important to know that you have choices when [...]
Global Warming, Greenhouse Gasses, and Carbon Footprint These buzzwords can trigger escalating discussions these days. The underlying issues and how they will effect our future can be scary to think about. But aside from modern conveniences such as streaming videos, storing our digital photos, and even reading our e-books, we need energy to meet [...]
Bioheat is better than standard heating oil in more ways than one. First and foremost, bioheat is better for the environment, reducing carbon emissions by up to 80%. It is a renewable fuel in the same category as wind and solar, and made from local recycled restaurant cooking grease, that would otherwise end up in [...]
November 30, 2017 Propane and Natural Gas are similar, but have significant differences as well. While natural gas has historically been the default fuel for heating homes and powering appliances in the greater Seattle area, Propane has quickly been gaining in popularity. In some cases, natural gas isn't an option because the natural gas pipeline [...]
November 8, 2017 Dear Home Heating Oil Customer, You may have received a letter from the City of Seattle’s Office of Sustainability and Environment (OSE) encouraging you to “ditch dirty oil.” The OSE’s campaign is not rooted in facts. We want to set the record straight—and give you the information you need to make the [...]
