...build homes from 2025 and in existing homes from 2035. The recent ‘Off-Grid Consultation’ subsequently proposed an end to new fossil fuel heating installations specifically in off-grid homes from 2026...
The Government’s Biomass Strategy delivers a greater acknowledgement of the unique challenges facing rural off-grid homeowners but a frustrating lack of detail. Recognising renewable liquid fuels as a pathway to...
...customers of our members – the 1.25 million mainly rural homeowners who are off grid. “Nothing was mentioned in the budget about a boiler scrappage scheme or help for off-grid...
With 88% of those off-grid having an EPC rating of E, F, or G these homes are generally unsuitable for a heat pump installation, says Neil Schofield, head of government...
Last week National Grid announced that over 9,000 homes ranging from island cottages on Orkney to terraced houses in London are set to benefit from the first payments from its new...
...off grid energy customers. This includes offering incentives to replace an estimated 900,000 old oil boilers with condensing boilers which would save every customer at least 20% off their fuel...
...right for the Vitorondens boiler to be more widely introduced into the UK as an alternative to biomass and LPG boilers for off-grid customers and where renewable options aren’t always...
...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...
...British public engaged with the process. Among the announcements he included: Existing plans to ban the installation of oil and LPG boilers, and new coal heating, in off-grid homes will...
...cent in 2021 (3.16 million). Characteristics that impact fuel poverty Off-grid and rural Note: Oil heated homes are all off the gas grid, and c90% are deemed rural. However, the...
