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Ken’s Corner – Governments need to be here to help
...along to effect change. This does feel right, and some of the proposals made regarding oil boilers are sensible, as is ensuring the right technology is fitted into our homes....
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Additional help for off-grid customers?
...off grid energy customers. This includes offering incentives to replace an estimated 900,000 old oil boilers with condensing boilers which would save every customer at least 20% off their fuel...
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What future for heating oil?
...that underlies the scheme. • that oil boilers will be capable of meeting the maximum permissible NOX emissions’ limit of 120 milligrams per kilowatt hour set by the EU for 2018....
Analysis
Government urged to listen to constituent concerns over home heat decarbonisation choices
...their home heating and at much higher costs. Under current government proposals, these households will be subject to a ban, in less than three years, on new and replacement boilers,...
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German manufacturer enters UK off-grid oil boiler market
...right for the Vitorondens boiler to be more widely introduced into the UK as an alternative to biomass and LPG boilers for off-grid customers and where renewable options aren’t always...
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Heat in buildings – joint statement on the government’s future framework
...be disrupted, and consumers negatively impacted. Such a pathway would give consumers the opportunity to make short term efficiencies including upgrading old boilers to modern high efficiency condensing boilers and...
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FPS calls on chancellor to do more for off grid homeowners
...in the UK and has been since January 2015. Therefore, a government supported scheme to replace older oil boilers with new, efficient condensing boilers would both reduce consumer heating bills...
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Phasing out fossil fuel in home heating
...of gas boilers by 2030. One notable absence in the strategy document is the lack of commitment to the use of hydrogen for decarbonising heat in homes. A decision on...
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FPS warns of the dangers of making early technology decisions for heating
...oil-fired boilers to heat pumps and solar panels. I would appreciate understanding the rationale for this figure and the technology assigned for the switch. There is a danger in making...
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The future pathway for liquid fuel heating
...two-stage strategy to decarbonise off-grid homes was launched last year. OFTEC plans focus on an incentivised programme to upgrade the 400,000 old, inefficient oil boilers still in use across England...
Opinion
Servicing customers
...saw boiler servicing as the next progressive step. We wanted to offer our customers a one stop shop so we sell oil, we sell tanks and we replace boilers,” explains...
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Committed to carbon neutral liquid fuel
...also be taken to reduce emissions, including replacing old boilers with oil-fired condensing boilers, using smart meters and smart controls to maximise the energy efficiency, and installing better insulation to...
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Boiler sales exceed expectations
...2012 – the best results for 5 years. The results underline the continued consumer confidence in oil heating following the cold winter. It is likely that many new boilers have...
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The case for low carbon fuels
...oil using homes in England and Wales. “It is premature for government to consider regulating against oil heating when all liquid fuel boilers could be run on a low carbon...
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Growing FAST
...premium product for pressure jet boilers. Then as problems with AGAs proliferated, the timing was perfect to develop a product for this market too. Whilst the chemistry was relatively straightforward,...
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127% more expensive than heating oil
...in the near future,” commented OFTEC chief executive Paul Rose. “Electrically powered heat pumps, along with biomass boilers, are two of the government’s preferred low carbon heating options promoted through...
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A future framework for heat in buildings: call for evidence
...meet carbon reduction targets in off gas grid buildings including taking a stepped change approach to carbon reductions through a government supported nationwide scheme to replace older oil boilers with...
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Can oil hold its market share?
...pumps and biomass, we’ll consider the threats and meet them,” said OFTEC chairman Barry Gregory. “With over 60,000 oil boilers sold annually in the UK to more than one million...