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BBC News covers the Cornish village where properties have been converted to run on HVO.

News

BBC throws a spotlight on successful HVO project

...more choice to off-grid homeowners. With the Biomass Strategy released last Thursday suggesting more work is needed around the renewable fuel, whether HVO becomes one of those options remains to...

Insight

TotalEnergies: Energy Outlook 2021

...focus will embrace the full spectrum of energy sources: oil, gas, biomass, wind and solar. This will be accompanied by a switch of emphasis which will see oil product sales,...

News

Showcasing oil heating’s future

...and biomass.  It’s a chance for everyone connected to the oil heating industry to broaden their knowledge; to discover and to discuss future options for off-grid domestic and commercial properties...
Researchers have demonstrated how waste oils can be turned into cleaner fuel.

News

University scientists have developed a greener marine fuel

...as well as marine diesel engines for power generation. The research illustrates how biomass pyrolysis technology has developed into a sustainable technique which can turn food and agricultural waste into...

News

A more diverse energy era for OFTEC

...OFTEC’s new scopes of registration covering heat pumps, solar thermal systems and solid fuel, with biomass registrations to be launched later this year. “It’s an exciting time for OFTEC as...

News

Bioliquids excluded from Renewable Heat Incentive

...ministers say they will only give RHI support to biomass boilers, air or ground source heat pumps and solar thermal technologies. OFTEC director general Jeremy Hawksley said: ‘”We’re very disappointed...
US$40M investment supports Velocys’ SAF ambition

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US$40M investment supports Velocys’ SAF ambition

...biomass, and CO2 & green hydrogen, and has demonstrated performance at commercial scale. Velocys’ experience of integrating its technology into an overall scheme is highly valuable to clients, allowing them...

Interview

The battle to offer a competitive product

...burning Whilst speaking to distributors this month, Aine Faherty reported no evidence of investment in renewable technology (biomass, air/ground source heat pumps or the installation of solar PV/thermal equipment). “Basically,...

News

Biofuels for heat, transport and electricity

...support. The update, which also includes plans to extend the non-domestic RHI to cover air source heat pumps and biomass, can be found at www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/68637/7382-uk-renewable-energy-roadmap-update.pdf The Northern Ireland Executive’s target...

News

Decarbonising heating – delay for domestic RHI

...helping to inform the scheme’s design. In the meantime, the Renewable Heat Premium Payment (RHPP) scheme, which offers money off biomass boilers, solar thermal panels and heat pumps, has been...

News

Industry professionals debate heating strategies

...thermal systems, with biomass to follow later this year. OFTEC has again called for a more pragmatic approach and continues to lobby for an alternative approach, including a simple boiler...

Opinion

UKIFDA submits views on Scottish Commission’s work plan

...properties. “The cost of retrofitting homes to make them suitable for heat pumps or biomass technology is often high,” explains Guy. “Many homeowners would be better off making step changes...
CCUS

Opinion

CCUS: why the UK needs it for net zero

...hard to decarbonise industries Large industrial facilities such as power plants that use fossil fuels or biomass can be retrofitted to capture the CO2 they produce, if it is not...

Opinion

Industry responds to CCC Sixth Carbon Budget

...good as biomass (the government’s preferred non electric solution). “Our industry is undertaking trials of liquid biofuels across the UK (similar to the gas industry undertaking hydrogen trials) and we...