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Fuel poor left out in the cold

...scheme open to low income households is the ECO initiative but this is due to finish in April 2017. Meanwhile, the only option for rural, off-grid households that don’t qualify...

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Association lobbies for delay on carbon tax increase

...the €6 increase of carbon tax on heating oil, used by over 686,000 households across Ireland, and gas oil, used by the farming and construction industry, due in May this...

Opinion

New ECO3 proposal to exclude oil boilers

...rural households and lead to even higher levels of fuel poverty. Last month BEIS launched a consultation on the introduction of ECO3 which is due to run from this October;...

Opinion

OFTEC: Time for open debate on off grid heat decarbonisation

Any consultation arising from the Government’s long anticipated Heat in Buildings strategy must allow a genuine discussion on all the options to decarbonise rural homes, otherwise thousands of households could...

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Oil heating cheaper than mains gas

Jeremy Hawksley – welcome news for the industry and the 1.5 million UK households who use oil for heating Oil is now the cheapest of all the major heating fuels,...

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Monument Fuels – a monumental undertaking

...currently houses 100,000 litres of kerosene storage and 30,000 litres of gas oil storage, and has potential for an additional 170,000 litres. Other than Trevor’s wife, who assists with book-keeping,...

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Crown Oil – encouraging customers to use cleaner fuels

Transport and business sectors are the UK’s largest/third largest contributors of greenhouse gases according to the most recent data in the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy’s  2017 UK...

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Oil boilers – big uptake in Northern Ireland

David Blevings, OFTEC’s Ireland manager has welcomed the boiler replacement scheme Strong response from Irish householders to the government’s £12million Boiler Replacement Scheme introduced last September, has been welcomed by...

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Oil – the cheapest of all major heating fuels

...for LPG and electric storage heaters – the other main heating methods used by off gas grid households – and oil remains vastly cheaper, currently coming in at 42.5% less...

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Associations push for more from strategy

...and OFTEC welcome the publication of the Heat and Buildings Strategy and associated off-grid consultation which recognises the role of renewable liquid fuels in supporting the decarbonisation of off-grid households...