O.T. Power vents

It would not matter if the unit has a power vent or not as the other parts of any residental furnace requires electricity to orperate the furnace controls. Without power no forced air furnace can orperate.

Your wood stove may or may not need electricity to run depending on the model you install.

Does power outages happen that often in your area and for how long at a time? If so then design your new home to use natural convection heating, heat rises! For short outages, less than 24hrs, most wood stoves will keep up with heating demand to keep the house from freeze up, even if the wood stove is not designed for the total heat load of the home.

On any new idea you come up with, I would visit my local building inspector and get current copies of the building code that pertains to that appliance install requirements. The codes change very often and that sometimes determins final install costs.

T_Bone