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Fuel poverty – distributors get together
Helping vulnerable heating oil users – Steve Davis, Midland Fuel Oils and Mark Askew with Tina Costello of Heart of England With the help of the Surviving Winter campaign, the...
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The Phillips 66 Interview
...the challenges of the forthcoming Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI)? The RHI scheme, which incentivises commercial and domestic customers to look at alternative heat technologies, is something Phillips 66 is following...
Insight
A look at the shape of the future UK downstream oil sector landscape
...July 2019, UKPIA declared a commitment to cease supply of heating oil to properties off the gas grid during the 2020s, when use of liquid fuels for space heating will...
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Crown Oil – encouraging customers to use cleaner fuels
...being fully interchangeable. “Businesses which rely on fuel should consider alternatives to heating oils, such as carbon offset red diesel; biofuel; clean-burning kerosene; industrial heating oil (IHO) – when 20%...
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National Grid targets off-grid fuel poverty
...the installation of affordable heating solutions in fuel poor households which don’t use mains gas as their primary source of heat. The £150m from National Grid comes on top of...
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OFT boosts transparency on heating oil prices
Following OFT action, GB Oils, the largest supplier of heating oil in the country, has changed its domestic heating oil contracts ensuring quoted prices do not increase from the time...
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A victory for oil heating
...European Commission published the draft Energy-related Products Directive six years ago, the future of the oil-fired heating sector looked bleak. Following a long campaign OFTEC has won a ‘significant victory’....
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XPO switches distribution depot heating fuel to HVO in sustainability drive
...sustainability agenda. The company, which has committed to being a responsible supply chain partner, has replaced the site’s heating fuel with hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) biofuel. The HVO product sourced...
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FPS and The Road to Zero
...the change without undue penalty – and without affecting the economy through an inability to meet the heating oil or red diesel supply needs’ says FPS technical manager, Tony Brown...
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ESL Fuels develops innovative oil processing technology
...Thornton Science Park. The new and innovative Molexis technology will complement large volume production of diesel, heating oil and marine fuels from sites across the UK. The first production unit...
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The £50 Energy Savings challenge
...the room at 19°C. Increasing room temperature by only 1°C, can increase heating costs by 10%, whilst reducing temperature by 1°C can save almost £6 per month. · Service your...
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Buy your heating oil early urges FPS
...suppliers have spare delivery capacity. I would also encourage all consumers to save money on heating their homes by ensuring their homes are fully insulated.” FPS chief executive, Mark Askew...
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Additional help for off-grid customers?
...bills and reduce CO2 emissions at the same time. Currently, oil heating is still the cheapest form of energy for off grid homes with the annual average cost to heat...
Opinion
Wales earmarked to be a global innovation leader in the adoption of hydrogen as aviation fuel
...trucks, heating, and aviation. In this Transition Talk, we will dive into the viability of using hydrogen in aviation. To talk us through this, Anders Lorenzen, writing for Fuel Oil...
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Combating counterfeit oil level monitors
...manufacturers and installers, heating oil today represents a safe and responsible fuel choice. However, recently the sale of counterfeit oil monitoring equipment on an internet auction website was discovered, with...
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Leading industry company celebrates 50 years of innovation
...in oil fired central heating by manufacturing domestic oil storage tanks.” Timing is everything “We started in a cowshed at Churchdown near Cheltenham. The tanks were manufactured in the old...
Opinion
The Distributor Debate
...to adopt renewables and numbers of community buying schemes climbing – join in the debate on the future of oil heating. Many industry experts have committed to attending, while others...
Interview
An interview with Ken Cronin, CEO UKIFDA
...to build in 2023. In Ireland, we have made progress with the launch of the Alliance for Zero Carbon Heating and the AECOM report. And the frustrations? Without a doubt,...