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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Oil boilers – significant sales increase
...in heating costs. This is by far the simplest and most cost-effective change that existing oil heating users can make”. OFTEC is promoting the benefits of oil heating to rural...
News
OptiMate is the key to MechTronic success in Ireland
...in Ireland, 40% of all homes rely on home-heating oil. In July 2019, heating oil prices reached their highest levels since 2014, following four consecutive years of growth. Naturally Covid-19...
News
Oil industry stars recognised
The 2014 OFTEC Awards for Excellence winners The best talent in the oil heating industry was showcased at OFTEC’s 2014 Awards for Excellence event last month. Attended by more than...
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...
News
West Cork school makes history as Ireland’s first to be heated using HVO
The primary school is Ireland’s first to transition to the low carbon biofuel from kerosene to fuel its heating system. To celebrate this important step on their environmental journey, staff...
Opinion
Ken’s Corner – Governments need to be here to help
...of the entire existing global grid. The devil will be in the detail Closer to home, the Scottish Government recently announced its proposals for home heating. In a bow to...
Insight
Ken’s Corner: Unintended consequences
The last few weeks of this year have been eventful, to say the least, with three significant announcements, including a new budget, major decisions on heating in Scotland and the...
News
Scotland’s first vegetable oil heated home
...Allan, managing director, James D Bilsland put her own Stirlingshire-based home forward to be part of the nationwide trial, backed by UKIFDA and OFTEC, converting the heating system in her...
News
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...
Insight
Shared deliveries …
...cost base is making deliveries. Looking at domestic heating oil – a core market segment for many distributors – a number of factors present challenges: Geographical dispersion of customers Multiple...
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...
News
Joint launch for ‘Get Winter Ready’ campaign
Coinciding with the start of autumn, UKIFDA and OFTEC have joined forces to launch their ‘Get Winter Ready‘ campaign which is designed to encourage the 1.5m heating oil customers across the...
News
OFTEC – anniversary celebrations and ‘business as usual’ post Brexit
(l-r) Jeremy Hawksley, Nick Hawkins and Paul Rose As OFTEC marks 25 years of raising standards in the heating industry, its focus remains firmly on the future. In a communication...
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...
News
Backing a certainty
...and a heating services division with over 70 engineers. An area of particular interest is retail. “This is a very, very competitive sector but retail offers a massive marketplace. We’ve...