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Showcasing oil heating’s future
...efficiency of equipment and buildings will play a vital role; alongside the probability of an increasing number of new renewable technologies working in harmony with existing oil-fired systems. The energy...
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Concerns raised – UK housing: fit for the future?
...climate change being without doubt the most urgent global issue we face, the CCC is right to highlight the issue of carbon emissions from buildings and to raise its concerns...
Insight
Welsh strategy supports 2050 net zero heat targets
The Welsh Government has launched a consultation on its Heat Strategy for Wales, designed to support its commitment to achieve net zero by 2050. As well as mapping out the...
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Irish Alliance achieves breakthrough in use of biofuels in decarbonisation
...scale of the challenge but will continue to push the matter forward: “Those in the home heating sector who have played a central role in meeting Ireland’s home heating needs...
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MP visits first ever fossil-free HVO village, converted in industry trials
...Eustice said: “It was great to visit Kehelland Village recently to hear about how Mitchell & Webber’s new fuel is helping families to heat their homes. It is vital that...
Interview
In Conversation with NWF and Geoff Boorman Fuels
...with uncertainty, the idea of taking control of your own future certainly has its appeal and, for some, that will be a decision to sell. An acquisition strategy With this...
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Managing costs: minimising fleet insurance premiums by reducing claims frequency
...dropped by 78%.2 The success of a fleet risk management strategy is heavily reliant on drivers doing what they can to help achieve the goal. There are two strands to...
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British invention could help industry slash energy bills and cut CO2
...zero ambitions,” James concludes. Inside a heat cell Each heat cell houses a solid core of aluminium-rock composite encased in vacuum insulation which can store heat at temperatures from 200...
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Climate Challenge: Action is imperative
...droughts, Dr. Khosla highlighted something even more deadly yet frequently overlooked: extreme heat. “Heat kills more people than any other extreme weather event,” she explained. “It’s increasing in frequency, duration...
Analysis
A step in the right direction
...the recognition it deserved when the Government put forward an amendment to the energy bill that grants the powers to introduce a Renewable Liquid Heating Fuel Obligation (RLHFO), similar to...
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The distributor offer revisited
...– amply demonstrated during the harsh winter weather of December 2010, when demand for heating oil soared. Good levels of general customer satisfaction in the domestic heating oil market were...
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Industry body backs fuel poverty campaign
...to discuss the help available to them. Distributor support “UKIFDA members also offer the Cold Weather Priority scheme to heating oil customers age 75+ which enables elderly consumers, who heat...
Interview
The battle to offer a competitive product
...heating season, is putting pressure on the sector, as people use their central heating as a last resort. “People are burning turf or whatever fuel they can and supplementing this...
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Prax group enters North Sea market with successful acquisition of Hurricane Energy
...long-term growth strategy’. After a court sanction of the deal, which valued Hurricane at £250m, was granted, the directors of the company, with a 100 per cent operated interest in...
Analysis
ACTION – changing health & safety culture from the ground up
...tasked with delivering a cultural shift in the company’s own approach and chats here with Margaret Major, managing editor of Fuel Oil News about the exciting new strategy that has...
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...
Insight
The UK fuel industry: latest statistical analysis
...from 2% in 2025 to 10% in 2030, and then to 22% in 2040. The mandate is part of the government’s “jet-zero” strategy to decarbonise air travel, but there are...
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Linton Fuel Oils – by royal appointment
...across central London and the Home Counties. In addition to the London head office, the company operates from other locations: Nustar’s terminal at Grays, Essex, and Esso’s terminal at Heathrow....