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The £50 Energy Savings challenge

David Blevings, Ireland manager of OFTEC As Northern Ireland’s energy companies joined together to celebrate Energy Aware Week last week, OFTEC issued an “energy savings challenge” to householders that could...

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Carbon monoxide poisoning – are your customers aware?

Oil customers should get their boiler checked annually by an OFTEC registered technician and fit a carbon monoxide detector in their home says OFTEC’s Malcolm Farrow This year’s Carbon Monoxide...

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Putting some fire into Cold Homes Week

...at www.oftec.org/consumers/keeping-warm-saving-money. With many thousands of standard efficiency boilers in need of upgrade, OFTEC has written to the government calling for the introduction of a simple oil boiler scrappage scheme,...

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The case for low carbon fuels

...alternative fuel before 2035,” said OFTEC CEO Paul Rose. OFTEC’s response also highlights the harsh realities of decarbonising off-grid housing stock -over 70% of rural properties have unfilled cavity or...

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Alarm bells raised by ‘beast from the east’

“While OFTEC in principal supports government’s desire to reduce carbon emissions, this cannot be at the expense of energy security,” says Paul Rose, OFTEC chief executive The impact of the...

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Low carbon fuels are deliverable

At last month’s OFTEC conference the agenda was dominated by decarbonisation, with delegates keen to hear the results of OFTEC’s biofuels research. Closing the conference on a positive note, OFTEC...

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Spring 2017 – a new quality mark – unanswered questions

...begin late spring. Commenting after the meeting, OFTEC registrations director Adrian Lightwood said: “OFTEC has always championed the importance of high industry standards alongside consumer confidence and so fully supports...