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Oil boilers – significant sales increase
...in heating costs. This is by far the simplest and most cost-effective change that existing oil heating users can make”. OFTEC is promoting the benefits of oil heating to rural...
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OptiMate is the key to MechTronic success in Ireland
...in Ireland, 40% of all homes rely on home-heating oil. In July 2019, heating oil prices reached their highest levels since 2014, following four consecutive years of growth. Naturally Covid-19...
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Oil industry stars recognised
The 2014 OFTEC Awards for Excellence winners The best talent in the oil heating industry was showcased at OFTEC’s 2014 Awards for Excellence event last month. Attended by more than...
Case Study
Digital delivery: selecting a solution
...diverse set of needs including agricultural fuel, lubricants, commercial fuel and home heating oil. With the latter, an extensive depot network allows Carr’s Billington Fuels to distribute heating oil quickly...
Analysis
UKIFDA databank: industry data update January 2025
...and heating days Heating days in the first nine months of 2024 was 2% below 2023 and 8% below 2019. Heating oil total consumption (ktoe) and pricing The split between...
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Promoting oil heating and cooking
The Federation of Petroleum Suppliers (FPS) has teamed up with OFTEC to mount a marketing and public relations campaign to protect the market share for oil heating and cooking. The...
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West Cork school makes history as Ireland’s first to be heated using HVO
...Mc Carthy, offered the ideal solution for the older building as an air to water heating system wasn’t suitable due to the building’s structure. Describing the switch as ‘a remarkable...
Opinion
Ken’s Corner – Governments need to be here to help
...of the entire existing global grid. The devil will be in the detail Closer to home, the Scottish Government recently announced its proposals for home heating. In a bow to...
Insight
Shared deliveries …
...cost base is making deliveries. Looking at domestic heating oil – a core market segment for many distributors – a number of factors present challenges: Geographical dispersion of customers Multiple...
Opinion
UKIFDA responds to government consultations
...and a source of frustration for UKIFDA, our members, and the heating oil industry as a whole, as we believe liquid biofuels can and should be part of the long-term...
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Joint launch for ‘Get Winter Ready’ campaign
Coinciding with the start of autumn, UKIFDA and OFTEC have joined forces to launch their ‘Get Winter Ready‘ campaign which is designed to encourage the 1.5m heating oil customers across the...
Opinion
The future for liquid fuel – What now for off-grid decarbonisation?
...government benefit support, but then spend thousands on installing a heat pump. The current approach also fails to consider the practical constraints facing the heating industry – constraints which are...
Opinion
Ken’s Corner – A managed transition?
...range of policy solutions to decarbonise residential heating across Ireland and promote sustainable renewable energy in the home heating sector. It revealed strong support for blended fuels, with 70% of...
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FPS highlights low margins in response to claims of profiteering on heating oil
...“there is something very wrong with the price of heating oil”, and that domestic heating oil suppliers have “allowed themselves to be influenced by very short term greed”. The statement...
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Backing a certainty
...Fourteen years later and now managing director at Certas Energy, Paul Vian was in the interview chair From GB Oils to Certas Energy Why the change of name? “It was...
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NIOF launches customer charter
...“Sixty eight per cent of homes in Northern Ireland use heating oil as their primary heating source and with such a high dependency on heating oil we need to safeguard...
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The right person to take OFTEC forward
...“He represents OFTEC on a number of national and European technical panels relating to heating. Paul is a member of the Chartered Management Institute, Institute of Domestic Heating and Environmental...
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West Cork school makes history as Ireland’s first to be heated using HVO
...as an air to water heating system wasn’t suitable due to the building’s structure. Describing the switch as ‘a remarkable milestone’, a spokesperson for Firebird said: “Together with Concubhar McCarthy,...
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