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Crown Oil – encouraging customers to use cleaner fuels

Transport and business sectors are the UK’s largest/third largest contributors of greenhouse gases according to the most recent data in the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy’s  2017 UK...

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Oil boilers – big uptake in Northern Ireland

David Blevings, OFTEC’s Ireland manager has welcomed the boiler replacement scheme Strong response from Irish householders to the government’s £12million Boiler Replacement Scheme introduced last September, has been welcomed by...

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Oil – the cheapest of all major heating fuels

...for LPG and electric storage heaters – the other main heating methods used by off gas grid households – and oil remains vastly cheaper, currently coming in at 42.5% less...

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Associations push for more from strategy

...and OFTEC welcome the publication of the Heat and Buildings Strategy and associated off-grid consultation which recognises the role of renewable liquid fuels in supporting the decarbonisation of off-grid households...

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Fuel poverty – a serious national problem

...households in fuel poverty could rise to 9.2m or 43% of households. www.decc.gov.uk/hillsfuelpovertyreview Greg Barker added: “People can still get help with heating and insulation through Warm Front, and around...

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EOGB hits out at oil’s exclusion from ECO funding

...aims to help low income households reduce their energy bills through energy efficiency measures, would see oil-heated households unable to repair or replace an old, faulty or broken boiler with...

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The distributor offer revisited

...dilemmas. Energy efficiency The OFT study also found lower levels of energy efficiency in the dwellings of off-grid households.   In Britain, 49% of off-grid households had the lowest Energy Performance...
Tim Doggett of the CBA addresses the challenges in the chemical supply chain

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The chemical supply chain: addressing ongoing challenges

...to roll out Carbon Literacy to their own organisations as well as suppliers and customers alike. Educating and engaging The CBA represents distributors, manufacturers, traders, warehouse operators, logistics and transport...