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As distributors seek new ways to reduce the carbon impact of their day-to-day activities, we continue our series taking a look at the products and initiatives which are actively improving the environmental impact of the sector.

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Products for a greener sector

...It is committed to delivering low/zero-carbon transport, alongside other power, heat, waste and recycling projects. Working with Certas Energy, TEP designed, manufactured and installed the new Shell GTL refuelling point....

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Low carbon fuels are deliverable

...their potential to deliver carbon reductions over different timescales. The research also compares the decarbonisation potential of biofuels with other low carbon heating options in oil-heated homes. The modelling, which...

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Stanlow invests in biofuels storage hub

...bio-methanol. The market for energy from renewable sources in the UK is expanding rapidly, driven by legislative obligations to encourage lower carbon fuels.  Additional storage investment opportunities for low carbon...
Essar Oil UK: Stanlow Manufacturing Complex

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Essar Oil UK: Stanlow Manufacturing Complex

...years to lower emissions by decarbonising production processes. Essar will be amongst the first low carbon refineries globally and will set the global benchmark for lower emitting refineries, showcasing the...
Future prospects for kerosene and HVO with domestic heating electrification ambitions.

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Heating future: prospects for kerosene and HVO

...these facilities more widely, either through conversion to bio-refineries or co-processing at existing refineries, to speed up the transition through greatly increased production of sustainable, low carbon liquid fuels. It...

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The future pathway for liquid fuel heating

...Clean Growth Strategy to phase out high carbon fossil fuel heating, whilst emphasising the viability of low carbon liquid fuels as a practical and cost-effective solution for off-grid homes. From...

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The case for low carbon fuels

...homes, OFTEC has highlighted ‘a strong case’ for the use of low carbon liquid fuels.  The case was put forward in response to a call from BEIS for evidence as...

Opinion

UKIFDA vision for a liquid fuel future

...commercial premises rather than using carbon tax to ramp up prices to try and force change. Guy Pulham adds: “Low carbon liquid biofuels are available, and government can accelerate production...

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Phasing out fossil fuel in home heating

...a commitment to ensure that, from 2035, all new heating appliances in homes are low carbon. The main points of the strategy are highlighted below. Heat pumps first The strategy,...

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Key challenges and opportunities facing the fuel distributor

...the transport sector, for ‘renewable’ fuels as low carbon liquid ‘drop-in’ fuels. Distributors are very well placed to exploit these opportunities. Challenges and opportunities – new and quite different from...

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Stanlow secures government backing

...Essar’s transition to becoming a ‘Low Carbon Energy Provider’ of the future. This will also include the construction of two blue hydrogen production hubs at Stanlow under the HyNet project,...