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FPS calls on chancellor to do more for off grid homeowners

...most funding is delivered in urban areas. Oil heating is currently recognised by the independent provider of comparative home heating costs, Sutherland Tables, as being the cheapest form of heating...

News

2030 – a vision for heating systems

Grant UK, heating solutions provider in the off-gas heating sector, has outlined its vision for the future in a manifesto for change. “Hybrid systems are a significant and immediately available...

Insight

HVO: An industry update

...industry in the UK is currently concentrating on renewable liquid fuels as a replacement for conventional fossil-based heating oil, in particular Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO). The fuel provides an 88%...

Insight

What future for heating oil?

...for domestic heating, representing 6% of the total heating fuel market. LPG use as domestic fuel accounted for a further circa 200,000 households. In comparison, natural gas is used by...

News

ECO3 – oil is included!

...only applies to broken boilers not First Time Central Heating (FTCH). Oil boilers will not be allowed under first time central heating (FTCH), district heating, solid walled homes minimum, rural...

News

EOGB announces support for OFTEC strategy

...on oil heating and, although the common perception seems to be that oil heating cannot improve in terms of carbon reduction, this could not be further from the truth,” said...

Opinion

Highs and lows of the oil price drop

...main gas supply, and therefore relying on heating oil, the sudden price drop meant that many households were purchasing extra oil to store, before the prices inevitably began to climb...

News

Will liquid fuels be heating homes in 2030?

...the market for oil boilers predominantly in the replacement sector, OFTEC’s strategy is to retain the present oil-fired boiler market share. Using initiatives such as the Oilsave campaign, OFTEC is...

Interview

DCC on ambitions for Ireland and energy transition

...and commercial fuels, heating oils, biofuel and renewable solutions and related products and services in Europe. Claudia Weeks, content editor of Fuel Oil News, speaks with Eddie O’Brien, managing director...