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UKIFDA’s winter campaign launches
...For heating oil users who are struggling to pay for their heating oil, the campaign includes resources such as the Government’s Help For Households initiative and its Help With Your...
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Kerosene – supply and quality
Like driving on the left, the UK is pretty much on its own when it comes to using kerosene as a heating oil Picking kerosene in the UK because of...
Interview
Topaz – keeping Ireland moving
...home heating customers. In its distribution business the company sells home heating oil to Topaz owned businesses north and south of the border and to authorised distributors – some of...
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Chancellor visits Worcester Bosch to see the future of heating
Worcester Bosch has met with the chancellor of the exchequer, Sajid Javid MP, to present its developments in low-carbon heating technology. (l-r) Robin Walker MP, Sajid Javid MP and Carl...
Case Study
Digital delivery: selecting a solution
...diverse set of needs including agricultural fuel, lubricants, commercial fuel and home heating oil. With the latter, an extensive depot network allows Carr’s Billington Fuels to distribute heating oil quickly...
Analysis
UKIFDA databank: industry data update January 2025
...and heating days Heating days in the first nine months of 2024 was 2% below 2023 and 8% below 2019. Heating oil total consumption (ktoe) and pricing The split between...
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West Cork school makes history as Ireland’s first to be heated using HVO
...and pupils from St. Enda’s National School in Dunmanway broke their summer holidays to gather at the school last week. Joined by representatives from Tria Oil, Firebird Heating Solutions, Carbery...
Opinion
Ken’s Corner – Governments need to be here to help
...along to effect change. This does feel right, and some of the proposals made regarding oil boilers are sensible, as is ensuring the right technology is fitted into our homes....
Insight
Ken’s Corner: Unintended consequences
...from using bioenergy heating systems in new homes. This ban included systems that use wood and Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO). The Government’s reasoning behind this decision was that any system...
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Celebrating innovation at Dunraven Systems
...world’s first integrated heating oil management system. Not only does OilPal allow customers to monitor the level and volume of heating oil inside their tank, it allows them to check...
Opinion
UKIFDA responds to government consultations
...and a source of frustration for UKIFDA, our members, and the heating oil industry as a whole, as we believe liquid biofuels can and should be part of the long-term...
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Oil heating stays ahead of the game
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...
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OFTEC – anniversary celebrations and ‘business as usual’ post Brexit
...within the Energy Related Products Directive – which we won in 2014. “Another major threat was the government’s ambition to eliminate oil heating by 2025 via the domestic Renewable Heat...
Opinion
The future for liquid fuel – What now for off-grid decarbonisation?
...government benefit support, but then spend thousands on installing a heat pump. The current approach also fails to consider the practical constraints facing the heating industry – constraints which are...
Opinion
Ken’s Corner – A managed transition?
...range of policy solutions to decarbonise residential heating across Ireland and promote sustainable renewable energy in the home heating sector. It revealed strong support for blended fuels, with 70% of...
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The right person to take OFTEC forward
...candidates were interviewed. Commenting on the appointment OFTEC chairman, Nick Hawkins, said: “Paul is very well known in the oil heating sector having been technical director at OFTEC since 2011....
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West Cork school makes history as Ireland’s first to be heated using HVO
...Enda’s National School in Dunmanway broke their summer holidays to gather at the school in August and were joined by representatives from Tria Oil, Firebird Heating Solutions, Carbery Plastics and...
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Cornish village marks stand-out success of industry-led fossil free oil trial
...the first company in the UK to convert an oil-fired boiler to trial HVO in Scorrier in 2020. Since then, the Mitchell & Webber team have been converting oil-fired appliances...