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Oil boilers – significant sales increase
...in heating costs. This is by far the simplest and most cost-effective change that existing oil heating users can make”. OFTEC is promoting the benefits of oil heating to rural...
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Biofuels for heat, transport and electricity
The recently published UK Renewable Energy Roadmap Update states that biofuels for heat, transport and electricity must offer genuine carbon savings and be cost effective in meeting climate change objectives....
Case Study
Digital delivery: selecting a solution
...diverse set of needs including agricultural fuel, lubricants, commercial fuel and home heating oil. With the latter, an extensive depot network allows Carr’s Billington Fuels to distribute heating oil quickly...
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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...
Insight
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...
Opinion
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....