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127% more expensive than heating oil
...(£967 per annum), 44% less expensive than LPG (£1524 per annum), 34% cheaper than biomass (£1283 per annum) and 50% less expensive than air source heat pumps using radiators (£1681)....
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Insight
Liquid fuel industry and heat pump lobbyists in agreement over ‘unfair’ new oil boiler ban
...encourage homeowners to make the switch. However, concerns around the cost and environmental impact of biofuels, which are already in high demand for transport, have been highlighted in the Biomass...
Case Study
Case study: Tuffa HVO tank offers EGGER a sustainable alternative to red diesel
...its processes through actions such as selectively sourcing wood from reputable suppliers and investing in a wood processing recycling plant and biomass energy plant powered by the waste wood within...
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BBC throws a spotlight on successful HVO project
...more choice to off-grid homeowners. With the Biomass Strategy released last Thursday suggesting more work is needed around the renewable fuel, whether HVO becomes one of those options remains to...
Insight
TotalEnergies: Energy Outlook 2021
...focus will embrace the full spectrum of energy sources: oil, gas, biomass, wind and solar. This will be accompanied by a switch of emphasis which will see oil product sales,...
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OFTEC supports installer transition to decarbonised world
...scheme, which covers liquid fuels, biomass, heat pumps and solar thermal heating, can help to support the high quality outcomes that will be essential as we embrace the challenge of...
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Showcasing oil heating’s future
...and biomass. It’s a chance for everyone connected to the oil heating industry to broaden their knowledge; to discover and to discuss future options for off-grid domestic and commercial properties...
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University scientists have developed a greener marine fuel
...as well as marine diesel engines for power generation. The research illustrates how biomass pyrolysis technology has developed into a sustainable technique which can turn food and agricultural waste into...
Insight
Government Spending Review 2025: A promise to deliver the Warm Homes Plan ‘in full’
...may not be a practical or cost-effective solution. In these cases, the Warm Homes Plan acknowledges that alternatives such as solid biomass boilers, high-temperature heat pumps, and potentially liquid biofuels...
Interview
Virgin Atlantic Flight100 – a flying start for future fuels
...feedstocks for UK SAF projects are municipal waste and waste biomass, which use no farmland. Is SAF is the future for aviation? Are there are viable alternatives? SAF alone will...
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A more diverse energy era for OFTEC
...OFTEC’s new scopes of registration covering heat pumps, solar thermal systems and solid fuel, with biomass registrations to be launched later this year. “It’s an exciting time for OFTEC as...
Analysis
Bio-CNG supplier ReFuels announces first profitable quarter
...operators is sourced from 100% biomass waste feedstocks, evidenced by Zemo’s Renewable Fuels Assurance Scheme (RFAS).” RFAS provides independent assurance of renewable fuel supply chain traceability, providing confidence to fleet...
News
Bioliquids excluded from Renewable Heat Incentive
...ministers say they will only give RHI support to biomass boilers, air or ground source heat pumps and solar thermal technologies. OFTEC director general Jeremy Hawksley said: ‘”We’re very disappointed...
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US$40M investment supports Velocys’ SAF ambition
...biomass, and CO2 & green hydrogen, and has demonstrated performance at commercial scale. Velocys’ experience of integrating its technology into an overall scheme is highly valuable to clients, allowing them...
Interview
The battle to offer a competitive product
...burning Whilst speaking to distributors this month, Aine Faherty reported no evidence of investment in renewable technology (biomass, air/ground source heat pumps or the installation of solar PV/thermal equipment). “Basically,...
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Phillips 66 brings renewable diesel to the Southeast as demand increases
...is instead derived from biomass sources such as used cooking oil, fats, greases and vegetable oils. First introduced as a wholesale product by Phillips 66 in 2022, it has a...
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Biofuels for heat, transport and electricity
...support. The update, which also includes plans to extend the non-domestic RHI to cover air source heat pumps and biomass, can be found at www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/68637/7382-uk-renewable-energy-roadmap-update.pdf The Northern Ireland Executive’s target...
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Decarbonising heating – delay for domestic RHI
...helping to inform the scheme’s design. In the meantime, the Renewable Heat Premium Payment (RHPP) scheme, which offers money off biomass boilers, solar thermal panels and heat pumps, has been...