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Londoners urged to scrap their boilers
...Greater London residents last week – and yes, it does include oil-fired boilers! Around 12,700 households in Greater London currently use oil for heating and an estimated 60% of these...
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Raw deal for rural renewables
...source heat pump would actually be increasing their carbon emissions. The ground source heat pump represented the best option, with potential CO2 savings of 1150kg per annum. Based on a...
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Concerns raised – UK housing: fit for the future?
...a programme of deep retrofit energy efficiency improvements, combined with a widespread switch to electric heat pumps, paid for by green loans and the Treasury. But ultimately all these measures...
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Oil boilers – no to scrappage scheme
...heating alternatives. “As you are aware, the primary vehicle for supporting the uptake of renewable heating systems is the Domestic Renewable Heating Initiative (RHI) which is targeted to homes that...
Interview
Taking a different approach
...they’re also buying lesser quantities. On top of that, oil is less attractive for heating and gas is making significant inroads.” FON asked distributors what they were doing to tackle...
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Getting warmer in the community
...the carbon footprint of deliveries. As an organisation that cares about environmental sustainability, we’d prefer not to be running an oil scheme – but for off-gas rural communities, oil heating...
Analysis
UK Downstream: bringing in the next generation
...heating oil etc. meaning this business is still required and it feels good to help people in need. Furthermore, the industry has a bright future ahead of it as we...
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UKIFDA submits its views on the Northern Ireland Energy Strategy
...this will have a positive impact on off-grid home heating transition plans.” The right technology for the right home Many of the homes in Northern Ireland heated by oil are...
Interview
Why are new UK oil fields essential to a sustainable future?
...of an industry that works through the year to keep our country running. They supply the gas that helps heat 24 million (83%) of UK homes and generates nearly half...
Interview
Doherty Oils – fail to plan, plan to fail
...it – literally – were home heating fuel distributors who struggled, but in most cases doggedly persevered to provide a lifeline for customers in some of the most remote and...
Interview
A better strategy for Irish distributors
...in terms of heating oil – this has been on the horizon for several years. Reduced demand because of coal, turf and wood burners plus, of course, gas is all...
Interview
Oil v gas
With heating oil consumption already in decline in Northern Ireland, plans to extend the gas network are not a welcome development to distributors already under pressure reports Irish correspondent, Aine...
Opinion
Should FPS and OFTEC move closer together?
Designed to boost the oil heating industry, the Oilsave campaign is a joint initiative between OFTEC and the Federation of Petroleum Suppliers. Should the two organisations do more together? Brian...
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Boiler scrappage in next month’s Budget?
...are heated by oil 18.9 million are heated by gas 200,000 are heated by LPG An estimated 60% of these boilers (11.9 million) are in need of replacement, the potential...
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Households in NI begin to receive long-awaited fuel payments
...Households in Northern Ireland are receiving £600 to help with their energy bills – regardless of how they heat their home. This is made up of a £400 payment as...
Opinion
Warning over red diesel price hike
...What also doesn’t make sense is the fact that cleaner fuels such as HVO are also being penalised by this taxation.” Recently, a number of construction industry bodies including the...
Insight
Harbour Energy’s Viking project to transform Humber into UK’s leading CCS hub
...UK, on the 28-29 June 2023, will be an opportunity to hear more about decarbonisation across refining, power, steel and cement and the role of CCS in delivering clean energy....
Opinion
Energy-neutral body says hydrogen supply chain development hinges on major policy changes
The energy-agnostic trade association, the Energy Industries Council (EIC), highlights the role of hydrogen as a clean energy as it participates in the UK’s first official Hydrogen Week. The development...