Knowledge
Data: the UKIFDA databank
...last full year prior to the pandemic and invasion of Ukraine. In this edition: Temperature review Overall hydrocarbon production and demand in the UK Hydrocarbon stocks Update on diesel, gasoil...
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Opinion
New National Composites Centre and TSA report calls for action to meet hydrogen targets
...has been identified as a zero-carbon fuel source which can help the UK reach its ambitious net zero targets. In the British Energy Security Strategy, the Government has set a...
News
Coca-Cola begins new UK HVO trial to cut vehicle emissions
Ball Beverage Packaging and Coca-Cola Europacific Partners launch innovative carbon-cutting vehicle trial. A twelve-month trial began in October which could reduce supply chain CO2e emissions by around 300 tonnes per...
Opinion
Creating a low carbon energy system
...carbon, affordable, reliable and secure? At present, affordability and security are at the forefront but reliability and carbon intensity are still equally important factors. “As I write, weaning ourselves off...
Opinion
Northern Ireland Government warned over heating sector decarbonisation plans
...current biofuel being promoted as the replacement for kerosene is HVO that offers an immediate c.88% reduction in carbon emissions. Our message to Stormont would be to examine every option...
News
Government confirms all new HGVs zero emission by 2040
...matures; many of our members are keen to utilise these low-carbon alternatives. Logistics UK is therefore urging the government to give confidence to operators looking to invest in low carbon...
News
EET appoints Ruth Herbert as Managing Director, Business Development and Strategic Initiatives
...her over 15 years of energy industry experience, most recently as Chief Executive of the Carbon Capture and Storage Association, where she helped to shape government policy and fostered partnerships...
News
Fuel poor left out in the cold
...for ECO is the domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI). However, the focus of the RHI is firmly on carbon reduction by encouraging the take up of 100% renewable heating technologies...
News
DECC proposes excluding biofuels from domestic RHI
...with wholly renewable domestic heating solutions in order to maximise both our renewable heat generation and carbon savings. By encouraging the installation of part renewable solutions, we believe we may...
News
Association lobbies for delay on carbon tax increase
...the €6 increase of carbon tax on heating oil, used by over 686,000 households across Ireland, and gas oil, used by the farming and construction industry, due in May this...
Insight
New report sets out pathway to decarbonising freight transport in Wales
...in Wales, but other pathways should – and can – be adopted in parallel. Low carbon fuels, for example, provide a near-term opportunity to decarbonise vehicles in hard-to-electrify applications. There...
News
Vulnerable rural households hit by discrepancies
...hard to treat rural properties. Our proposed low carbon liquid fuel would provide an easy to implement alternative to kerosene which wouldn’t rely on improved insulation to deliver substantial carbon...
Opinion
Roll out of E10 petrol in Northern Ireland is welcomed by UKPIA
...up to 10 percent ethanol, which brings Northern Ireland in line with the rest of the UK, has been welcomed by UKPIA as a further step towards reducing transport carbon...
Opinion
UKPIA welcomes investments in hydrogen
...important part of the refining process, use of low carbon hydrogen would result in significant reductions of emissions at the refinery and, therefore, across the lifecycle of all of its...
News
Ground breaking transatlantic flight hailed as significant step for sustainable liquid fuel
...of the potential to significantly cut net carbon emissions from flying, flight VS100 was operated under special dispensation with no paying passengers, and used fuel imported from the US and...
News
Royal Mail hits first milestone in HVO fleet switch
Royal Mail has hit its first milestone in its rollout of HVO to fuel its HGV fleet, using over 10 million litres and saving over 30,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide...
News
Slicker Recycling scoops Servicesure Autocentre award
...Slicker Recycling has provided sustainable solutions to meet the waste management needs of Servicesure members. Through an efficient process, collectively members have saved up to 100,000kg of carbon emissions every...
News
Supplying renewable, carbon-neutral biofuels
...of several major OEMs Crown Oil has invested in a stock of carbon-neutral, renewable and sustainable HVO biofuel in a bid to shift demand in the UK industrial sector from...