Insight
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...
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Insight
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...
News
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...
Opinion
Ken’s Corner: The throwaway society?
...from my EXPO presentation. “Over the last 15 years, heating oil prices have not changed – despite inflation running at 45%.” What the data tells us As many of you...
News
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...
News
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...
Opinion
Business and energy minister backs winter fuel readiness campaign
...they will help. Similarly, if you have elderly neighbours or friends who also use heating oil to heat their homes, encourage them to sign up and stay warm all winter....
Opinion
Ken’s Corner – Governments need to be here to help
...networks would be overloaded on a typical winter’s day and 35% on a 1 in 20 winter peak day in the areas carrying heat pumps. Both main parties have pledged...
News
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...
Opinion
Ken’s Corner: why change for the sake of change is not the change we need
...as a secondary heating source in many homes. Indeed, nearly a quarter of detached homes in Finland still use wood as the main heat source (all of this ignores wood...
News
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...
News
Distributor showcases future fuel ready Rayburn that indicates belief in HVO
The Rayburn Heatranger is a new model of the popular home-heating and cooking appliance that has been designed to run on fossil-free liquid fuel straight out of the box. Put...
News
Government proposes Energy Bill amendment in response to industry calls to incentivise HVO
...Fuels campaign. Recognising widespread concerns over the potential financial impacts on rural off-grid homeowners of the proposed 2026 oil boiler ban and a ‘heat pump’ first strategy, the amendment, if...
Opinion
A New Year’s wish for joined up thinking for fuel distribution
...that it would benefit heating oil users. Joining the dots The industry welcomed the news that one government department saw the value in this for UK heating oil customers. Now...
News
CMA finds heating oil market “generally competitive” and that suppliers did not materially profit from the crisis
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has concluded that the UK home heating oil market is generally competitive and that distributors did not profit materially from the price disruption caused...
Interview
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...
Opinion
UKIFDA urges UK Government to reconsider red diesel entitlement deadline
...a time frame that meets net zero and maintains food production too. “With regard to non-commercial heating being excluded, red diesel has a very limited use for domestic heating and...
Analysis
Industry cleared again: Irish regulator finds no fault in fuel price surge
...heating oil and road fuel prices – the regulator has concluded that there has been no breach of competition or consumer protection law. Brian McHugh, chairman of the CCPC commented:...