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What future for heating oil?

...for domestic heating, representing 6% of the total heating fuel market. LPG use as domestic fuel accounted for a further circa 200,000 households. In comparison, natural gas is used by...
The Downstream Oil Industry Distributor Forum elaborates on changes made to ensure the PDP Scheme meets the specific needs of the home heat sector.

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PDP Scheme acts on home heat sector concerns

...needs of the home heat sector. Covid and the restrictions on training must have been challenging for the Scheme, what did you do? When we went into lockdown in March...

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16% bioenergy needed to safeguard UK energy security

...solutions for the decarbonisation of hard to treat areas like heat and transport.  As well as delivering a further 117 TWh across heat and power, sustainably doubling the deployment of...

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ECO3 – oil is included!

...only applies to broken boilers not First Time Central Heating (FTCH). Oil boilers will not be allowed under first time central heating (FTCH), district heating, solid walled homes minimum, rural...

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EOGB announces support for OFTEC strategy

...shipping and aviation as well as commercial off-grid heating. With development and production ongoing, it is anticipated that a low carbon liquid fuel for heating could be readily available in...

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A more diverse energy era for OFTEC

...transition to low carbon heat.  We want to help forward thinking oil installation businesses to expand their customer reach. “The Heating and Renewables Roadshows present an excellent opportunity to showcase...

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Scotland’s first vegetable oil heated home

Recycled vegetable oil is being used for the first time to heat a home in Scotland. The revolutionary renewable fuel has been identified as a key alternative clean energy source...

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New heating oil website launched

...(FPS) and OFTEC have also teamed up to launch www.oilsave.org.uk to campaign to protect the market share for oil heating and cooking, due to go live on 1 November. www.heatingoil.co.uk www.oilsave.org.uk...

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DCC on ambitions for Ireland and energy transition

...and commercial fuels, heating oils, biofuel and renewable solutions and related products and services in Europe. Claudia Weeks, content editor of Fuel Oil News, speaks with Eddie O’Brien, managing director...

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Toxic find in County Armagh

Over 14 tonnes of toxic waste was removed from farm buildings at the end of June after the discovery of a diesel laundering plant in Co Armagh. Officers from HM...

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Impressive Jet rebrand for service station

...during which time the height of the canopy has been raised, the buildings re-modelled to provide 2000 square feet of retail space and the look and feel transformed by the...
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The UK fuel industry: latest statistical analysis

...air pollutants have been falling across the last decade, driven by improvements in technology and regulation. The sectors with the highest emissions continue to be domestic transport and buildings and...