Analysis
UKIFDA databank: industry data update January 2025
...and heating days Heating days in the first nine months of 2024 was 2% below 2023 and 8% below 2019. Heating oil total consumption (ktoe) and pricing The split between...
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Delivering SAF at scale: a sector investing in future production
...oil feedstock at the refinery, and British Airways will add it into the existing pipeline infrastructure which feeds several UK airports including London Heathrow. Using the existing infrastructure to deliver...
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Irish Alliance achieves breakthrough in use of biofuels in decarbonisation
...scale of the challenge but will continue to push the matter forward: “Those in the home heating sector who have played a central role in meeting Ireland’s home heating needs...
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MP visits first ever fossil-free HVO village, converted in industry trials
...Eustice said: “It was great to visit Kehelland Village recently to hear about how Mitchell & Webber’s new fuel is helping families to heat their homes. It is vital that...
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British invention could help industry slash energy bills and cut CO2
...zero ambitions,” James concludes. Inside a heat cell Each heat cell houses a solid core of aluminium-rock composite encased in vacuum insulation which can store heat at temperatures from 200...
Opinion
Fuel industry responds to Transport Decarbonisation Plan
...Minister’s Ten Point Plan, the measures look to achieve cleaner air, healthier communities, and new ‘green’ jobs through: Consulting on ending the sale of all new polluting heavy goods vehicles...
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Innovative technology could be ‘missing link’ for cost-effective carbon capture
...dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere is acknowledged as a threat to the planet’s future, and clean growth and de-carbonisation targets have been imposed on governments and local authorities in an...
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The distributor offer revisited
...– amply demonstrated during the harsh winter weather of December 2010, when demand for heating oil soared. Good levels of general customer satisfaction in the domestic heating oil market were...
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Industry body backs fuel poverty campaign
...to discuss the help available to them. Distributor support “UKIFDA members also offer the Cold Weather Priority scheme to heating oil customers age 75+ which enables elderly consumers, who heat...
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Wanted – a total rethink on the UK’s low carbon heat strategy
...position to make the large leap towards wholly renewable heating,” said OFTEC director general Jeremy Hawksley. Working towards a low carbon future for heating Committed to working towards a low...
Opinion
New ECO3 proposal to exclude oil boilers
...the deadline for responses is this Sunday (29th April). Under the new proposals, oil-heated households will still be eligible to fit energy efficiency measures such as insulation and heating controls...
Interview
The battle to offer a competitive product
...heating season, is putting pressure on the sector, as people use their central heating as a last resort. “People are burning turf or whatever fuel they can and supplementing this...
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Creating a Taskforce for Liquid Biofuels
...of heat pumps, but we believe they need to look at alternatives as this is not feasible due to the high installation and running costs of heat pumps for off...
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Airport Energy – making every single litre count
...in 2000. “At that time, legislation – in particular the updating of the Clean Air Act – meant that all vehicles, including those used on Heathrow now had to meet...
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NZTC announces clean energy start-up cohort
The Net Zero Technology Centre (NZTC) has announced its 2024 TechX start-up cohort. The TechX Clean Energy Accelerator, now in its sixth year, will welcome 12 high-potential start-ups to the...
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Industry welcomes Chancellor’s £20bn backing for carbon capture and storage
Budget 2023: Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, says it’s time for a ‘Clean Energy Reset’ as he announces £20bn investment into UK carbon capture and storage (CCS) and a...
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Chancellor visits Worcester Bosch to see the future of heating
...millions of existing heating systems in our homes can be saved, rather than the entire system needing to be replaced if alternative technologies such as heat pumps were installed. “Millions...
Insight
Ken’s Corner: Unintended consequences
...for which there may be challenges in installing a clean heating system – due to grid constraints or other reasons” and in associated documents clarification regarding how the government will...