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Reality check needed off-grid
...for a heat pump installation. The Government’s Clean Growth Strategy has been widely criticised for its suggestion that oil boilers are to be phased out, with many claiming that renewable...
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Ensuring the new government hears FPS members
Newly appointed FPS president, Duncan Grant intends ‘to use every opportunity and more to promote what is an incredibly hard working and conscientious industry’ On 22nd April 2015 Duncan Grant,...
Opinion
Report calls for a technology-agnostic approach to home heat decarbonisation
...and LCTs for decarbonising heat.” “The vast scope of technologies this will include ranges from electrified solutions, such as all types of heat pumps, direct electric heating, infrared heating, mechanical...
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Mitchell & Webber: driving the ground breaking campaign for a liquid fuel future
...their heating, either for financial or practical reasons. In a rural area like ours, with many older properties that can’t be easily converted to other sources of low-carbon heating, a...
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UKIFDA challenges Irish government on biofuels
...(used for home heating and hot water) accepts the urgent need to decarbonise heating. Liquid fuel, more specifically a bio product, can be part of the solution to achieve net...
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UKIFDA encourages homeowners to start biofuel transition
...All of these improvements will increase energy efficiency, create carbon efficiency and reduce bills. Carbon reduction without retrofitting “The continued focus on electrification of heat using heat pumps for those...
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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...
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Certas accelerates energy transition strategy with renewables appointment and acquisition
...heat pump distributors Waterkotte, Space Air Solutions, Daikin and most recently, as Commercial Director for Glen Dimplex Heating and Ventilation, Mark has over 20 years’ experience in construction and the...
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Essar chooses final tech partner for carbon capture facility
Essar Oil UK has announced Elessent Clean Technologies’ BELCO® gas cleaning technology as the final key licensor technology provider for its planned EET Industrial Carbon Capture facility at Stanlow. This...
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MPs support bill to incentivise renewable liquid fuels
A proposal to incentivise rural households to use HVO to fuel their heating systems has been put to parliament. On Wednesday 11th January, the influential Cornish Conservative MP and former...
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New standard publication will ensure sustainability of liquid fuels for immediate home heat decarbonisation
...liquid fuels are used in the heat market. In publishing the standard BSI explained: “Around 1.5 million homes in the UK currently rely on liquid fuel heating. For the sake...
Opinion
The future of oil heating debate – watch the video
...to be continued….. In the meantime your views on the ability of the oil heating market to resist the threats are invited jane@oilinstaller.co.uk. THE FUTURE OF OIL HEATING JEREMY HAWKSLEY...
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Heating oil – a year as the cheapest form of energy
...“The average annual heating costs for heating oil users have fallen every quarter for the last three years and since April 2015 the price of domestic heating oil has fallen...
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The future of oil heating – watch the debate
...to be continued….. In the meantime your views on the ability of the oil heating market to resist the threats are invited jane@oilinstaller.co.uk. THE FUTURE OF OIL HEATING JEREMY HAWKSLEY...
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FPS warns of the dangers of making early technology decisions for heating
...by Sutherland Tables, a recognised independent source of comparative domestic heating prices, who say the average annual cost of heating a three-bedroom home in Ireland with heating oil is €1,594...
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Significant changes to the UK heating market
...heating installers Significant changes are coming to the UK heating market that will affect thousands of installers and heating engineers. A survey launched today gives you the opportunity to shape...
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127% more expensive than heating oil
...facing a 12.5% rise in electricity prices, the average cost of heating a home on oil continues to fall, reigniting OFTEC’s call for government to urgently review its current heat...
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Will liquid fuels be heating homes in 2030?
...that liquid fuels are being used to heat homes in 2030 and beyond? OFTEC continues to lobby government to include bioliquids in the domestic Renewable Heat Incentive, which would make...