Lots more days of sun all year in Texas than WI-no doubt cheaper production. Stoves that use pellets are popular for heating homes and barns in rural areas of the state that don’t have a lot of trees where dead ones can be cut-to minimize forest fire danger, and for firewood-no trees to speak of on plains/prarie, desert-the pellets stoves are expensive to buy, but cheap to operate-not an option for me, however-I’m poor, and there are wooded areas all over here-so a normal woodstove works for me...
WI has large amounts of wood waste from the lumber and paper industry, not to mention corn stalks and junk trees that are usually used for toilet paper. If I recall early in the Obama administration a couple of coal plants being decommissioned were going to be switched to pellets as a trial, but the government changed their mind and they were denied the permits. The US ships pellets to Europe for converted coal plants. Environmentalists oppose it here, can’t cut down trees though I think there are plants operating.
Come over and I’ll give ya 15-20 full cords of oak and hickory.