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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...
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,...
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Biofuel backed as the future for oil-heated homes
...fuel to replace kerosene could provide the answer to reducing carbon emissions from heating rural homes. Earlier this year, OFTEC commissioned a series of independent reports into the viability of...
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Oil heating is more competitive
...of heating an average three-bedroom home with oil, electricity or wood pellets. The results coincide with the announcement by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) that the number...
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Distributor diaries April 25: updates from our distributor community
...in partnership with UKIFDA, and, more recently, the Cosy Heating Club offering prizes and other benefits to monthly direct debit customers, “Craggs Energy and Moorland Fuel were also the first...
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Products and markets
...range consists of petrol, diesel, aviation fuel, LPG, fuel oil, gas oil and heating oil. With the exception of fuel oil and LPG all products can be transported via the...
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Low carbon liquid fuel – centre stage at this month’s OFTEC conference
...unveiling the results of its independent research into how oil-heated homes can best transition to a low-to-zero carbon heating solution and reduce their overall emissions. The unveiling will take...
Opinion
New UK oil essential for low carbon future
...the backbone of an industry that works through the year to keep our country running. They supply the gas that helps heat 24 million (83%) of UK homes and generates...
Interview
Celebrating 50 years of innovation
...probably unemployable,” remembers co-founder Bruce Woodal. “Therefore, we decided we should start a business of our own and recognised there was an opportunity to seize in oil fired central heating...
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DfE sets up renewable biofuels stakeholder group
With much higher levels of oil use for heating in Northern Ireland, OFTEC believes that sustainable biofuels like HVO can play an important role in decarbonisation and has had the...
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Londoners urged to scrap their boilers
...Greater London residents last week – and yes, it does include oil-fired boilers! Around 12,700 households in Greater London currently use oil for heating and an estimated 60% of these...
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Growing FAST
...then with CPL Petroleum, about the development of a premium heating oil with added fragrance. Also expressing interest in premium kerosene were James Spencer, then at Bayfords, which went on...
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Oil boilers – no to scrappage scheme
...heating alternatives. “As you are aware, the primary vehicle for supporting the uptake of renewable heating systems is the Domestic Renewable Heating Initiative (RHI) which is targeted to homes that...