Opinion
The route to off-grid heating beyond kerosene
It is more than a year since HVO was first trialled in oil-fired boilers in the UK and the trial’s second phase is already well underway. 200 homes and businesses...
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Interview
Oil v gas
...Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE), which currently manages 90,000 social housing dwellings, may not hurry to changeover, despite gas being its preferred fuel. “With oil boilers only installed at many...
Insight
Ken Cronin, CEO UKIFDA urges ‘facts before theories’
...grid connections. The committee has been much more robust in its recommendations for hybrid biofuel boilers in this circumstance (its central scenario included 0.9m hybrid biofuel boilers). “The only potential...
Opinion
OFTEC disappointed with lack of support for HVO in Queen’s speech
...a wider roll out of the conversion of boilers from oil to HVO. Whilst we welcome the commitment in the Queen’s Speech to bring forward an Energy Bill to ‘deliver...
News
Aggreko supercharges investment in oil-free air compressors
...energy intensive industries in Europe look to reduce operating costs and lower emissions, Aggreko has also been investing in its wider Greener Upgrades™ portfolio, including new steam boilers, Stage V...
Opinion
Home heating policies are impacting voting intentions in key rural constituencies
...has a majority of just 712. In its Heat and Buildings Strategy the government proposed an end to the installation of new fossil fuel oil boilers from 2026 with most...
News
Crown Oil’s new fuel for fleet
...tonnes of CO2 by switching over to the renewable diesel. Crown HVO can be used in vehicles, commercial boilers (running on gas oil), tractors, generators, machinery and inland waterway vessels....
News
University scientists have developed a greener marine fuel
...8216 and ISO 8217) for use in diesel engines and boilers. A paper, recently published by the university, states that the oil blends can be used in stationary diesel engines,...
News
Raising awareness – carbon monoxide and fossil fuels
...damage to your health.” “We would agree with OFTEC’s advice for consumers to ensure all fuel burning appliances – such as heaters, boilers and cookers – are serviced at least...
News
RHI target – an unrealistic goal?
...We already know that a boiler scrappage scheme works as a similar initiative in 2010 saw 120,000 old, inefficient boilers replaced.” OFTEC’s concern about lack of interest in the domestic...
Insight
Key challenges and opportunities facing the fuel distributor
...will not be forced to remove their existing boilers, instead an approach will be aligned to markets and consumer behaviour to minimise costs and disruption. While there has been much...
News
Making oil-heated homes more energy efficient
...OFTEC director general Jeremy Hawksley. “This is due to poor insulation levels and the high number of old, inefficient boilers still in use. “We are urging all the political parties...
Opinion
Red diesel update: Navigating the evolving fuel landscape
...any equipment modifications and are ideal for use in commercial boilers, heaters, driers and furnaces. Both industrial heating oil and kerosene are currently unaffected by the duty equalisation changes and...
News
DECC proposes excluding biofuels from domestic RHI
...undermine this objective. • Indicative tariff ranges for air source heat pumps (6.9-11.5p/kWh), biomass boilers (5.2-8.7p/kWh), ground source heat pumps (12.5-17.3p/kWh) and solar thermal technologies (17.3p/kWh) that are MCS certified...
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Decarbonising industry – working together is key to accelerating the energy transition
...in the Humber region. Alongside low carbon hydrogen and its derivatives Uniper’s solutions also include: biomass CHPs and boilers, using biomass in place of fossil fuels. carbon capture and storage...
News
Oil – cheapest home heating fuel by far
...of oil condensing boilers have reached a nine-year high and we’re receiving an increasing number of enquiries from gas safe technicians looking to expand into the oil market. The outlook...
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In Conversation with Klass Oil: a class act in energy distribution
...fuel sales of the drive to reduce carbon emissions in the sector, Gabriel is adamant the changes need to be made: “Better insulation and more efficient boilers are certainly playing...
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Vulnerable rural households hit by discrepancies
...the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) that oil boilers will not, as initially proposed, be excluded from ECO3 which has now come into effect. However, the inclusion of oil does...