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Bioheat® Fuel

Bioheat® Fuel

Efficient, effective heating oil that’s great for the planet and your heating system.

Throughout central Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire, homeowners are looking for ways to keep their loved ones safe and warm in the most environmentally responsible way possible.

Happily, there’s an affordable and widely available heating product on the market that can lower your home’s greenhouse gas emissions while improving your system’s efficiency—and it doesn’t require any changes to your oil-powered boiler or furnace. It’s called Bioheat® fuel.

Fraticelli Oil & Propane currently delivers Bioheat fuel to homes and businesses in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Here’s everything you need to know about this safe, dependable, eco-friendly fuel:

What is Bioheat fuel?

Bioheat fuel is a blend of ultra-low-sulfur heating oil and biodiesel. Biodiesel is a U.S.–made liquid fuel produced from organic and recycled waste products like:

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How does Bioheat fuel help the environment?

Biodiesel is a gallon-for-gallon replacement for petroleum heating oil that can reduce emissions by at least 50 percent. At a 10-percent biodiesel blend, Bioheat fuel considerably reduces sulfur oxide, carbon dioxide, particulate matter and mercury emissions.

The blend level that Fraticelli Oil & Propane delivers achieves better greenhouse gas performance than natural gas!

Is Bioheat fuel safe for your heating system?

Not only is Bioheat fuel safe for your boiler or furnace, but it has fantastic benefits that can reduce your operations costs.

You can use Bioheat fuel in your existing oil-fired heating equipment without modifications. Moreover, you sacrifice no heat generation with Bioheat fuel. It produces the same robust, efficient heat as traditional heating oil with dramatically lower emissions.

Bioheat fuel actually saves you significant costs by improving combustion efficiency and extending your system’s service intervals. It does this by keeping your heat exchangers virtually free of deposits. And Fraticelli’s heating oil is even better for your system with our Clean Zone additive!

Bioheat Fuel FAQs


Bioheat fuel is a largely American-made energy source. American farmers and producers create biodiesel from a range of domestic agriculture and waste products. Right now, U.S. biodiesel producers manufacture more than 3 billion gallons annually, and that number continues to grow!


It depends on the blend. You might see terms like B10 or B20. These refer to the percentage of biodiesel in a particular Bioheat blend (i.e., B20 contains 20 percent biodiesel). Fraticelli Oil & Propane typically works to provide a product with 20% biodiesel, which has better greenhouse gas performance than natural gas. Please rest assured that we always set our blend percentage to ensure our fuel remains plentiful and affordable.


Bioheat fuel will last about 18 to 24 months, so you should not have to worry about fuel “expiring” in your tank.


The heating oil industry is on track to accomplish its goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 by working toward a 100 percent biodiesel product. Already, a leading manufacturer has developed burners with B100-compliant components. Also, the National Oilheat Research Alliance (NORA) has fitted a home in New York with 100 percent biodiesel heating and solar panels for electricity — proving that households can achieve net-zero carbon emissions quickly and at an economically viable cost!


To begin receiving Bioheat fuel in Worcester, Middlesex or Franklin County in Massachusetts or Cheshire or Hillsborough County in New Hampshire, join the family of Fraticelli Oil & Propane customers.

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