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Oil heating updates on Oilsave website
The Oilsave website has been updated to carry new campaign material to promote oil heating to consumers. Members of the Federation of Petroleum Suppliers (FPS) are due to receive an...
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Opinion
“Do you agree with the Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) that the Province should have more oil buying clubs?”
...more oil buying clubs, there will inevitably be more – batten down the hatches!” For further comment see the Value Oils blog – www.valueoils.com/blog/home-heating/heating-oil-buying-groups-2/ Joe Bradley, Bradley Fuels “I don’t...
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Fuel poverty – distributors get together
Helping vulnerable heating oil users – Steve Davis, Midland Fuel Oils and Mark Askew with Tina Costello of Heart of England With the help of the Surviving Winter campaign, the...
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Oilfast expands South West Scotland network with new Dumfries depot
...we serve.” To mark the opening of the depot, Oilfast is offering £20 off first orders of heating oil, with one customer also set to win 500 litres of heating...
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Crown Oil – encouraging customers to use cleaner fuels
...being fully interchangeable. “Businesses which rely on fuel should consider alternatives to heating oils, such as carbon offset red diesel; biofuel; clean-burning kerosene; industrial heating oil (IHO) – when 20%...
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National Grid targets off-grid fuel poverty
...the installation of affordable heating solutions in fuel poor households which don’t use mains gas as their primary source of heat. The £150m from National Grid comes on top of...
Insight
No one likes a ban, but everyone likes an EXPO!
...costly. The maths is, ultimately, very simple. An average kerosene heated home uses c1,800 litres annually (c18,500kWh). At the current price (65ppl), this equates to an annual heating bill of...
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OFT boosts transparency on heating oil prices
Following OFT action, GB Oils, the largest supplier of heating oil in the country, has changed its domestic heating oil contracts ensuring quoted prices do not increase from the time...
Interview
Paul Wilkinson, NWF: Why people are at the heart of NWF’s next chapter
...scope for differentiation. “Whatever people may want to think, what goes into our tankers and ends up with our customers – whether it is heating oil or commercial diesel –...
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A victory for oil heating
...European Commission published the draft Energy-related Products Directive six years ago, the future of the oil-fired heating sector looked bleak. Following a long campaign OFTEC has won a ‘significant victory’....
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XPO switches distribution depot heating fuel to HVO in sustainability drive
...sustainability agenda. The company, which has committed to being a responsible supply chain partner, has replaced the site’s heating fuel with hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) biofuel. The HVO product sourced...
Opinion
Ken’s Corner: An end to finger-pointing lets us get back to concentrating on who matters most – the customer
...costs outside the industry’s control. The review also recognised that operating margins across the sector are typically modest and that households using heating oil generally have access to a number...
Insight
Online fuel marketplaces: Menace or opportunity?
...heating oil marketplace, hosting around 200 suppliers and having processed over 1 million orders since 2004. ValueOils: A leading independent Northern Ireland price-comparison platform. HomeFuels Direct: National online heating-oil retailer...
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Fixed price fuel option: Should distributors be offering one to their customers?
...may seek budgetary certainty to guard against potential spikes in heating oil prices during peak winter months, helping to manage household heating expenses. Another advantage for customers is security of...
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The £50 Energy Savings challenge
...the room at 19°C. Increasing room temperature by only 1°C, can increase heating costs by 10%, whilst reducing temperature by 1°C can save almost £6 per month. · Service your...
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Buy your heating oil early urges FPS
...suppliers have spare delivery capacity. I would also encourage all consumers to save money on heating their homes by ensuring their homes are fully insulated.” FPS chief executive, Mark Askew...
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Combating counterfeit oil level monitors
...manufacturers and installers, heating oil today represents a safe and responsible fuel choice. However, recently the sale of counterfeit oil monitoring equipment on an internet auction website was discovered, with...
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Leading industry company celebrates 50 years of innovation
...in oil fired central heating by manufacturing domestic oil storage tanks.” Timing is everything “We started in a cowshed at Churchdown near Cheltenham. The tanks were manufactured in the old...
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