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Following the mild early winter, a sudden arctic blast towards the end of 2022 saw home-heating oil orders ‘go ballistic’ with many distributors in Ireland and the UK mainland implementing...
...delighted to have renewed our long-standing relationship with Heathrow Airport and look forward to continuing to service Heathrow and the wider airport business community.” “This contract renewal demonstrates our commitment...
...in cold condition. Approximately 80% of oil heated homes have the worst Energy Performance Certificate ratings of F and G. In Cold Homes Week, OFTEC once again calls for improvements...
The recently published UK Renewable Energy Roadmap Update states that biofuels for heat, transport and electricity must offer genuine carbon savings and be cost effective in meeting climate change objectives....
...millions of existing heating systems in our homes can be saved, rather than the entire system needing to be replaced if alternative technologies such as heat pumps were installed. “Millions...
The Federation of Petroleum Suppliers (FPS) has teamed up with OFTEC to mount a marketing and public relations campaign to protect the market share for oil heating and cooking. The...
In 2014, OFTEC helped secure a major win for the industry, challenging an EU standard which would have required oil heating appliances to meet NOx levels as low as 92mg/kWh...
...“there is something very wrong with the price of heating oil”, and that domestic heating oil suppliers have “allowed themselves to be influenced by very short term greed”. The statement...
...so cannot afford to adequately heat their homes to stay warm and well. Over the 2016/17 winter period, England and Wales saw an estimated 34,300 excess winter deaths – a...
...spokesman. For the Chapel, they want to be able to turn the heat on for certain events during the week, but they don’t want constant heat, so a heat pump...
...regarding the cost of change and suitability for a heat pump off-grid appear wildly optimistic. Low energy efficiency and poor insulation makes heat pumps costly and impractical to install and...
...approach that is currently lacking in the deployment of heat pumps. Although heat pumps may not be suitable for every home, particularly those off the gas grid, they will contribute...
...on the low carbon heat consultation UKIFDA technical manager Tony Brown said; “Whilst we always welcome any news on low carbon heat options and decarbonisation innovations, we are disappointed there...
...heating sectors – for example a massive heat pump trial is underway – so given the comparatively modest funding we will be looking for, there’s every reason to be hopeful....
...targets. Home heating Mr Sunak announced a fairer and better approach to home heating and net zero that he believes will achieve a balance without imposing costs and keep the...
...include liquid biofuels in policy for off the gas grid homes. Hydrogen is an option as an alternative to gas heating as well as heat pumps and rural consumers should...
Roz Purcell launches the Topaz home heat campaign 2014 In January, Topaz will create 110 new jobs with the opening of two new service stations developed at a cost of...
...year, the show’s commercial lead, Jonathan Hibbert, said: “This show is about oil working smarter and more efficiently alongside complementary renewable technologies such as solar PV, solar thermal, heat pumps...
