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MP visits first ever fossil-free HVO village, converted in industry trials
...challenge in rural areas, which often rely on oil boilers. “Finding a way to allow them to convert their boilers at reasonable cost to a fuel with a lower carbon...
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Opinion
Carbon capture cluster projects essential to net zero 2050
...step, but scale is essential if the UK is to make itself carbon neutral by 2050. “We look forward to Acorn and other carbon capture projects joining Hynet, and the...
Opinion
UKIFDA encourages homeowners to begin transition to biofuels
...to the gas grid to cut their carbon emissions through a series of planned steps, rather than one major heating system change. Biofuels would allow off-grid homes to switch to...
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Fuel supply sector review highlights significant losses and growth in low carbon fuel projects
...supported the development of the UK low carbon fuels industry.” “Since the 1st September 2021, standard (or ‘premium’) grade petrol, known as E10, has contained a higher ethanol content in...
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World’s largest renewable biomethane refuelling station opens
...road. The site is part of CNG Fuels’ nationwide network of eight renewable biomethane refuelling stations which covers the length and breadth of the country, enabling low carbon deliveries from...
Insight
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...
Opinion
Downstream workforce must be part of transition to avoid skills shortages
...substantial overlap between downstream petroleum and low-carbon technologies, including hydrogen and carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS). However, the way companies transition – either by modifying existing products or expanding...
Interview
A Day in the Life…Marcos Matijasevich
...its manufacturing operations through a combination of carbon capture and storage, energy efficiency, low carbon hydrogen production and fuel-switching to hydrogen, and that is the space in which my team...
News
Certification formalises industry supplier’s investment in decarbonisation
Suffolk-based Amarinth, a world-leading, net-zero designer and manufacturer of low lifecycle cost centrifugal pumps and associated equipment, primarily for the offshore and onshore oil & gas industries; nuclear and renewable...
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SEA call for regulation welcomed by UKIFDA
...framework. SEA argues that, together, these would complement energy efficiency improvements and encourage greater uptake of insulation and low carbon heating systems in a way that guarantees lower carbon emissions...
Opinion
Industry support for sustainable aviation fuel mandates
...since focussing on the outcome of reducing emissions per litre of fuel will allow multiple technologies to develop to help deploy low carbon intensity SAF at scale in future. UKPIA...
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Mazda establishes race circuit benchmarks using fossil-free sustainable fuel
...capable of running for many years to come. Sustainable fuels, such as biofuels, efuels and synthetic fuels provide a low-carbon alternative to conventional hydrocarbon fuels, ensuring the lifespan of these...
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bp plans UK’s largest hydrogen project
...to North Sea storage sites, pipe corridors and existing operational hydrogen storage and distribution capabilities, the area is uniquely placed for H2Teesside to help lead a low carbon transformation, supporting...
Opinion
UKIFDA urges UK Government to reconsider red diesel entitlement deadline
...liquid biofuels as a low carbon alternative to heating oil and urges investment in the UK biofuels sector – industry analysis shows that sustainable, low carbon liquid fuels could be...
Opinion
Call for affordable low carbon heating solutions to overcome biggest barrier
Recent data has identified that cost is the biggest barrier to consumer uptake for low carbon heating systems leading to growing calls for more affordable solutions. The new data from...
Knowledge
HVO – The issue of sustainability
...It is as important to consider the environmental and human rights issues around Lithium extraction for batteries as it is to consider the carbon intensity of transporting biofuels from production...
News
Oil-fired heating – time to back the most cost-effective option
...is based on in-depth, independent research which shows that for oil heated properties, low carbon liquid fuels offer the highest carbon reduction impact for the lowest cost⁴. Analysis also shows...
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Essar chooses final tech partner for carbon capture facility
...carbon refinery and first low carbon fuel producer. Decarbonisation strategy Deepak Maheshwari, CEO of Essar Oil UK, said: “It’s great to have our final licensor technology provider in place as...