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Promoting oil heating and cooking
The Federation of Petroleum Suppliers (FPS) has teamed up with OFTEC to mount a marketing and public relations campaign to protect the market share for oil heating and cooking. The...
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Fuel Poverty Fact Sheet
...more than 10% of its income on energy in order to provide a satisfactory heating regime. A number of different charities, including the National Energy Action (NEA), use this method...
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Celebrating innovation at Dunraven Systems
...world’s first integrated heating oil management system. Not only does OilPal allow customers to monitor the level and volume of heating oil inside their tank, it allows them to check...
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Shared deliveries …
...cost base is making deliveries. Looking at domestic heating oil – a core market segment for many distributors – a number of factors present challenges: Geographical dispersion of customers Multiple...
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The UK’s refineries: past, present and future
...well as to Heathrow and Gatwick airports. Humber: Nameplate capacity is just under 11 million tonnes per year through two distillation units, with around 70% of the refinery’s production being...
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Oil heating stays ahead of the game
In 2014, OFTEC helped secure a major win for the industry, challenging an EU standard which would have required oil heating appliances to meet NOx levels as low as 92mg/kWh...
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Joint launch for ‘Get Winter Ready’ campaign
...to last year. “People who use oil to heat their homes would be forgiven for not thinking about heating their homes at the moment with many of us still experiencing...
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OFTEC – anniversary celebrations and ‘business as usual’ post Brexit
...within the Energy Related Products Directive – which we won in 2014. “Another major threat was the government’s ambition to eliminate oil heating by 2025 via the domestic Renewable Heat...
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OFTEC and UKIFDA response to the British Energy Security Strategy
...energy you don’t use, so this is where the new strategy should have started. “We are particularly concerned about off-gas grid households that use oil heating. The government has stated...
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FPS highlights low margins in response to claims of profiteering on heating oil
...“there is something very wrong with the price of heating oil”, and that domestic heating oil suppliers have “allowed themselves to be influenced by very short term greed”. The statement...
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Backing a certainty
...and a heating services division with over 70 engineers. An area of particular interest is retail. “This is a very, very competitive sector but retail offers a massive marketplace. We’ve...
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NIOF launches customer charter
...“Sixty eight per cent of homes in Northern Ireland use heating oil as their primary heating source and with such a high dependency on heating oil we need to safeguard...
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The right person to take OFTEC forward
...“He represents OFTEC on a number of national and European technical panels relating to heating. Paul is a member of the Chartered Management Institute, Institute of Domestic Heating and Environmental...
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In conversation with Bedford Fuels Ltd
...to cope with the increased demand for electricity with the proposed switch to electric vehicles and heat pumps. Also, why would people spend up to £15,000 on a heat pump...
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West Cork school makes history as Ireland’s first to be heated using HVO
The primary school is Ireland’s first to transition to the low carbon biofuel from kerosene to fuel its heating system. To celebrate this important step, staff and pupils from St....
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Can oil hold its market share?
...technology is not competing adequately with incumbent heating systems. Jeremy Hawksley remarked: “Although favoured by government, there’s still a long way to go on heat pumps.” Francis stressed that greater...
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Cornish village marks stand-out success of industry-led fossil free oil trial
...renewable heating fuel within its broader energy strategy. Over 50 appliances across domestic, commercial and other properties have now been converted to HVO – including at a school and Kehelland’s...
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Oil heating more compatible with off-grid homes
Jeremy Hawksley, OFTEC director general The proposed Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) is unlikely to tackle the problem of carbon emissions from rural homes, according to OFTEC. In a written response...