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Response to Ireland’s Climate Action Plan
...The high costs of the ‘deep retrofitting’ processes which are usually required to allow a heat pump to be installed – the average cost of a deep retrofitting was €56,000...
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UKIFDA encourages homeowners to start biofuel transition
...All of these improvements will increase energy efficiency, create carbon efficiency and reduce bills. Carbon reduction without retrofitting “The continued focus on electrification of heat using heat pumps for those...
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UKIFDA challenges Irish government on biofuels
...‘Programme For Government – Our Shared Future’ with no specifics on numbers behind all the objectives. They say they are developing a new area-based and one-stop-shop approach to retrofitting, to...
Opinion
Industry alliance leads the way toward zero carbon heating for Ireland
...panacea, as it requires the deep retrofitting of buildings en masse, which is an expensive and disruptive undertaking, costing €56,000 on average. TAZCH believes that, if we are to be...
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UKIFDA encourages homeowners to begin transition to biofuels
...does not take into account the high price consumers would have to pay to change existing systems. The majority of the UK’s rural off-grid homes are pre-1919; and retrofitting would...
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Northern Ireland Government warned over heating sector decarbonisation plans
...OFTEC and the NI Oil Federation (NIOF) have been lobbying the local energy department and our message is simple, whilst heat pumps and retrofitting will be the right choice for...
Interview
Kevin McPartlan of Fuels for Ireland
...buildings.” “Furthermore, with the housing crisis in Ireland and the shortage of tradespeople, we simply don’t have the workforce to deliver the deep-retrofitting targets the Government has set. We’re only...
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UKIFDA supportive of Scottish energy consultation proposals
...high proportion of farmhouses and buildings) is such that retrofitting heat pumps will require a huge capital expenditure to improve the insulation of the properties. If this work is not...
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UKIFDA submits views on Scottish Commission’s work plan
...properties. “The cost of retrofitting homes to make them suitable for heat pumps or biomass technology is often high,” explains Guy. “Many homeowners would be better off making step changes...
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Certa Ireland transitions entire fuel distribution fleet from diesel to HVO
...retrofitting on our vehicles to do.” Reducing consumption “All our delivery depots are carefully selected and situated within the hearts of their communities which enables us to reduce our kilometres...