Introducing the Smartest Residential Oil Boiler

Oil Boiler

The engineers at Energy Kinetics created the World’s Smartest Oil Boiler because they’re driven to conserve energy.

Homeowners love our boilers, because they enjoy whisper quiet operation, nearly endless hot water, and cutting their home heating bills by up to 40%.1

The boiler designed for homeowners who don’t want to waste energy or money.

Oil Heat - Greener than ever.

Why Oil Heat? Why Now?

Greener than ever.

Since 2012, oil heat has been elevated to an exceptional world class fuel because most states now use Ultra Low Sulfur Heating Oil. Ultra Low Sulfur Heating Oil is a type of heating oil that has had all of its particulate emissions virtually eliminated. With the removal of the sulfur content (the primary source of particulates and fouling), heating oil now burns as cleanly as natural gas. In addition to burning cleanly, oilheat offers these benefits:

  • Oil heat has increased the use of biofuels, creating widespread adoption of renewable energy for heat and hot water in oilheat states and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Because biodiesel is made from agricultural waste products, it doesn’t compete with food consumption products, as does ethanol.
  • Oilheat and biofuels are abundant, as the United States has a readily available supply.
  • Oilheat provides 50% more energy per gallon than propane, and almost 40% more energy than a therm of natural gas, making oil heat a very good energy value.
  • An Energy Kinetics oil boiler improves the efficiency of heating your home, which means you use less energy, save money, and reduce your greenhouse gas emissions.

3 Ways Energy Kinetics Oil Boilers Save You More Money than Cast Iron Designs

Oil Boiler Brain

Boiler Energy Manager Warranty
Energy Manager Warranty
The Energy Manager carries a 5-year warranty and a lifetime protection plan – with no registration required. Refer to the specific warranty for details.

 

The Brain

The World’s Smartest Boiler

The engineers at Energy Kinetics have created a patented boiler technology that outperforms and outlasts the competition, and it’s only available in boilers manufactured by Energy Kinetics.

It’s the world’s smartest boiler, the boiler with the “brain“.1

Known as the “Energy Manager,” it’s this brain that monitors and maximizes home heating efficiency, cutting fuel bills. More specifically, the Energy Manager is perfectly integrated with a low mass boiler, so it heats up quickly, gets the job done, and scours the boiler and piping for remaining energy in the system, redirecting it into your home and hot water—no energy wasted! Also, in the unlikely event that there’s an issue with the oil heating system, the Energy Manager identifies and helps by taking corrective action to mitigate the problem before the technician arrives. Equipped with a 5-year Energy Manager warranty and a lifetime protection plan thereafter, you’ll never have to worry about the cost of replacing an expensive control.

Combined Heating and Hot Water

The Flow

Combined Heating and Hot Water

The benefits of using the same energy source to heat your water and your home seems obvious; however, most heating systems aren’t designed to take advantage of this synergy.

Energy Kinetics oil boilers are specifically designed to use all the heat that’s transferred into the boiler to deliver heat to rooms and heat water. Our boilers even recover and reuse energy remaining in the boiler and piping. Conventional boilers simply finish while still hot, wasting energy each time the burner fires.

Energy Kinetics boilers are able to achieve the best efficiency and highest output through the implementation of a smart control that monitors and anticipates heat and hot water loads. This “brain” actively makes decisions to optimize the interaction between a low mass boiler and a high performance tank with a hot water plate heat exchanger to deliver superior results. The implementation of this plate heat exchanger is just one example of an Energy Kinetics’ innovation, and this alone can cut up to 10% off fuel bills when you upgrade from an indirect tank with a coil.

Hard water? Learn more about how our Sealix® corrosion proof non-stick Silicon Dioxide coated plate heat exchangers create a barrier against hard water fouling, scaling, and corrosion that’s durable even under extreme temperatures and pressures.

Highest Efficient Oil Boiler

The System

The Oil Boiler Re-imagined

The engineers at Energy Kinetics have deconstructed every component of the conventional cast iron boiler and used superior design and materials to recreate it as not only the world’s most energy efficient oil boiler, but also as one that outlasts and easily outperforms the competition.

Through the use of innovative materials such as specially formulated and fully welded gasket-free steel (vs. cast iron), the elimination of energy stealing draft regulators, and an elegant spiral design with wide open and easy-to-clean flue and water passes, our boilers have been engineered to save you money by performing at higher efficiency levels while heating your home.

Take A Closer Look

Conventional Oil Boilers vs. Energy Kinetics Oil Boilers


As seen in this thermal image, heavy cast iron boilers that make hot water finish hot at 160°F to 200°F—even in the summer—causing up to 40% annual energy losses. Energy Kinetics boilers have over 90 lbs. of insulation and jacketing, virtually eliminating all losses.

Common boiler controls and outdoor reset controls are not effective at reducing fuel bills. Energy Kinetics “low mass” boilers are designed with energy recovery and thermal purge controls, creating the best heat and hot water efficiency. In addition, typical oil fired boilers are noisy—operating at above 60 decibels—similar to a vacuum cleaner. Energy Kinetics boilers are whisper quiet.

Energy stealing draft regulators suck heated air out of the building and are not required on boilers with the most stable combustion. The high performance chamber in each of Energy Kinetics boilers provides stable combustion. Therefore, our boilers don’t contain draft regulators and aren’t subject to the heat loss associated with them.


“Pin” type cast iron boilers are impossible to clean thoroughly and are prone to fouling; consequently, stack temperature and fuel bills inevitably increase.  These cast iron boilers also have sections, gaskets and “push nipples” that leak over time. Furthermore, these components are not often covered by warranty. All Energy Kinetics boilers are designed with a wide open flue and water passes to improve efficiency, as well as fully welded 3/16” specially formulated steel that has no gaskets or push nipples to fail.

Boilers with coils for heating water, called tankless coil boilers, typically run out of hot water quickly, and their coil flanges are prone to leaking and failure. Also, these energy hogs make hot water at 20-40% efficiency. Adding an indirect tank helps; however, these boilers usually run three to five times a day to make hot water, finishing hot and leaving energy wasted in the boiler. Energy Kinetics heavily insulated storage tank is heated by the full boiler output through a high efficiency plate heat exchanger.  Integrated energy recovery and thermal purge controls ensure heat energy is transferred to the tank and not left wasted in the boiler.1

In re-imagining the oil boiler by eliminating the poorly designed elements of conventional boilers, Energy Kinetics has created boilers that conserve energy and save homeowners money on their oil heat bills.

Still Not Convinced?

Learn how all Energy Kinetics residential oil boilers are designed to outperform and outlast our competitors’ new boilers saving you money on your monthly heating bills.

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How Much Does It Cost to Heat a House with Oil?

Residential Oil Boilers, Real Homes and Real Savings

Homeowners from across the United States, including Alaska, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Maryland, Massachusetts, Vermont, Delaware, Virginia, Ohio, Washington, and Maine have enjoyed cutting their oil bills by having an Energy Kinetics oil boiler installed in their residence.

It’s true; the cheapest boilers are the most expensive ones to own. To understand the true cost of owning a boiler, you must also consider its annual operating costs. Using our annual boiler fuel bill calculator, it’s easy to find out how much money you can save annually by installing an Energy Kinetics boiler over a conventional NEW heating system.

Case Study of Homeowner Holly’s 2 Story Home

Annual Savings: $1,827
30 Year Savings: $54,813

In 2016, Holly A. switched from a 15 year old steel boiler with a tankless coil hot water heater to the Energy Kinetics EK1 Frontier Heating and Hot Water System with a 40 gallon hot water tank. Her fuel cost in the prior year was $5,739.

Pictured is Holly’s Two-Story Residence in Skytop, Pennsylvania

Homeowner Dwayne M. of Brooklyn Shares His Results of Switching to an Energy Kinetics Oil Boiler to Heat His Home

Paid for Itself in 2 Years!

This has been our best investment! We had inherited a rusty old cast iron, direct heat oil furnace with no hot water heater when we bought our home. Firing it up every time we needed hot water and its frequent servicing cost us a ton of money on oil our first year. The following year we installed the System 2000 model. Immediately, we saw big savings, as our oil consumption decreased enormously. It paid for itself in 2 years. In addition, it has performed flawlessly for 5 years now. Great product!”

Oil Boiler FAQs: Everything You Need to Know

Learn about oil boilers, their benefits, and when to replace them in our comprehensive FAQ section.

An oil boiler is the part of a home or commercial building’s heating system that converts heat energy from fuel oil or renewable liquid heating fuel combustion into water circulated through a piping system to heat the building. This differs substantially from a furnace that distributes heat by forcing air through ductwork and vents or registers in walls, ceilings, and floors. Boilers are widely regarded as more comfortable and efficient than furnaces, especially in cold climates and when considering typical duct energy losses are between 25% and 40%.
Oil heat boilers provide the best comfort in old or new homes, with affordable operation, fast recovery from thermostat night setbacks, and nearly endless hot water with properly integrated tank storage systems. Many can also run on biofuel blends, cutting carbon emissions further in addition to energy efficiency savings from low-mass thermal purge boilers that can cut fuel bills and emissions up to 40%. No other cold climate heating fuel has a scalable near-term carbon reduction pathway like biofuels for oil boilers.
The four main types of oil boilers are tankless coil boilers that provide heat and hot water with a “coil in the boiler”, hot water boilers with a separate “indirect tank” providing hot water heated by the boiler, heat only boilers (with a separate water heater), and combi boilers that provide heat and hot water from the boiler (there is no tank, and hot water is heated by a heat exchanger that is attached to the boiler). There are also classes of boilers, including “high mass” cast iron boilers, which may be poorly insulated and have hot burner doors, and “low mass thermal purge” boilers, which are extremely efficient and quiet.
Boilers, particularly gas or oil boilers, should be serviced annually. An annual visit from a qualified heating professional will allow the professional to check the boiler to ensure it runs safely and as efficiently as possible. Knowing that your boiler runs safely and efficiently will give you peace of mind. There have been many advances in fuel quality in recent years, including ultra-low sulfur fuel, which nearly eliminates boiler and furnace scale buildup for much cleaner and more efficient operation. Even with these clean fuels, annual tune-ups are still recommended.
To help keep your boiler running smoothly, have it tuned up annually by a qualified heating professional and regularly inspect the boiler and surrounding area as indicated by the boiler manufacturer.
Oil boilers can provide many years of safe, reliable, and comfortable heat and hot water. Sometimes, propane is considered as an alternative when a boiler is ready for replacement, although it is important to know that oil has 50% more energy per gallon than propane ($2.50 per gallon of propane is like $3.75 per gallon of oil heat). As an alternative to oil heat boilers, heat pumps are acceptable for warmer weather (above about 35°F to 40°F), but they don’t work well for night setback and may not recover from colder temperatures or power outages. Heat pumps may also feel like they are “blowing cold air” in winter in cold climates as the temperatures produced are much lower than temperatures homeowners are accustomed to from furnaces or boilers with air handlers. Winter operation can also be very expensive, with residential electricity rates near $0.30/kWh in New England in 2023, the equivalent of $12.18 per gallon of oil. Another technology, air-to-water heat pumps, which can heat through boiler or hydronic water supplied to baseboard and radiators, generally only produce water at 130°F to 140°F, much lower than the 180°F water required for cold climate heating boilers in most applications.
Oil boilers often provide heat and hot water, so it is important to compare “apples to apples” and include other important factors when comparing prices. For example, wall-hung condensing gas boilers sometimes have equal or lower installation prices but may have much shorter life cycles, requiring the installation of 2 or 3 condensing gas boilers in the 25-year life of a typical oil boiler (this is especially true if not properly installed and maintained). Condensing gas boilers may also be much more expensive to maintain; proprietary parts and controls are the norm and may not be available on short notice. Oil boilers typically use industry-standard burners and controls, so maintenance or repairs can be accomplished without long delays. Energy Kinetics stocks a deep inventory of parts to support all products produced since its founding in 1979 and manufactures proven 30-year life cycle boilers.
Energy Kinetics boilers are designed for worry-free operation and ease of service. We’ve created a deep inventory of readily available parts and designed our systems to maximize available “off-the-shelf” components to provide years of reliable operation. Energy Kinetics’ trained dealers have direct access to our technical support team and engage in our in-house training programs to ensure your comfort for years to come. Contact your dealer to find a qualified boiler technician.
The Inflation Reduction Act includes a tax credit for the installation of 87 AFUE and higher residential oil heat boilers that are rated for use with 20% biofuel blends or B20. Energy Kinetics’ entire line of oil heat boilers is rated for B20 biofuel blends.
Heating professionals who are experts in residential or commercial hydroponics and use combustion analyzers are often qualified to install oil boilers. Their installers and service personnel may also have factory training in equipment and service or carry Bronze, Silver, or Gold certifications from the National Oilheat Research Alliance for further peace of mind.
Typical baseboard-heated homes are designed for use with boilers supplying 180°F water on the coldest winter days. In some cases, there is not enough baseboard fin tube radiation installed, so rooms may not heat adequately. To boost the output of these pre-existing baseboard rooms, the boiler temperature can be increased above 180°F, up to the maximum temperature recommended by the boiler manufacturer for the particular application. These higher temperatures may not be needed on warmer days, and running at higher temperatures can waste energy, especially in high-mass cast iron boiler applications that finish hot when the thermostat is satisfied. For these reasons, Energy Kinetics’ Energy Manager controls monitor each thermostat. If the rooms do not heat fast enough, with SmartBoost™ enabled, the Energy Manager will automatically increase the boiler temperature to provide improved comfort in those rooms. Once the rooms are adequately heated, the Energy Manager will restore the boiler operation to normal operating temperatures.
Oilheat boilers have a heating capacity, usually quantified in Gallons Per Hour (GPH), BTU/hour, or MBH (thousand BTU per hour), which indicates how much heat the boiler can produce. One gallon per hour is about 140,000 BTU/hr, so 1 GPH is about 140 MBH input. The output shows how much continuous heat the boiler can deliver to the home or building. The higher the output MBH rating, the greater the capacity. Output is always lower than the input due to losses out of the vent system or chimney and further reduced by piping and pickup losses. Pickup typically refers to how much energy is required to heat the boiler and piping; higher-mass cast iron boilers have excessive weight and high water content, making them slower to heat and less energy efficient than low-mass boilers in general. The energy needed to raise the temperature of 5 quarts of water by 70°F is about the same as that required to heat 100 pounds of cast iron by 70°F. This means that low mass and low water content are very important for efficiency and responsiveness from a cold start. High boiler mass coupled with poor insulation is a primary reason why cast iron gas boilers have much lower heat and hot water efficiency than shown in AFUE ratings alone1. Therefore, low mass and low water content are important considerations when looking for a boiler that maximizes efficiency.

1 AFUE Summary Report

Bioheat® fuel is liquid heating fuel with blends ranging from 2% up to 100% biodiesel that can be used in place of traditional fossil-based fuel oil1. Biodiesel is a renewable, biodegradable fuel manufactured domestically from waste stream sources including vegetable oils, animal fats, or used cooking oil. For example, soy meal and soy protein are used in many products as a food source, and the waste oil from that process can be refined into a high grade ASTM spec fuel used with oilheating systems listed for use with biodiesel. Energy Kinetics became the first manufacturer in the world to offer UL listed B100 boilers in December, 2023. These boiler models can run on any blend from straight fuel oil through B100 (100% biodiesel) without the need for burner adjustments even if the blend percentage changes2. The number after the B represents the biodiesel percent, for example B20 is 20% biodiesel and B100 is 100% biodiesel. Biodiesel meets both the biomass-based diesel and overall advanced biofuel requirement of the Renewable Fuel Standard.

1Bioheat is a registered trademark of Clean Fuels Alliance America.
2Proper installation and tuning of heating equipment by service professionals is always recommended.

Which Oil Boiler Is Right for Heating Your Home?

Ascent Combi Tankless Coil Replacement Boiler

Ascent™ Combi

Saves up to 20% over tankless coil boilers1
Homes with 1 or 2 thermostats
Homes without a hot water tank
Chimney vented
Oil and Gas Boiler

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System 2000

System 2000®

Saves up to 40% over heat and hot water boilers1
Delivers exceptional value
Chimney vented
Nearly unlimited hot water
Oil and Gas Boiler

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90+ Resolute

90+ Resolute™

Saves up to 40% over heat and hot water boilers1
Oil boiler with highest efficiency
Sidewall vent, Chimney Relining applications
Nearly unlimited hot water
Oil and Gas Boiler

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1The Ascent Combi does not have an Energy Manager or storage tank. However, it does feature smart controls not found in tankless coil boilers that deliver substantial energy savings and better hot water production.  Quiet operation is whisper quiet with optional silent burner cover.