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Weather bomb will land in Britain through this week as officials ramp up warnings for freezing -6C gales and blizzards bringing travel chaos and power cuts – OilFiredUp
Snow and cold weather in UKSnow and ice warnings issued for Scotland and Northern Ireland as icy front advances from AtlanticTemperatures could fall to -6C (21F) in Scotland but southern England will enjoy mild conditions of 11CMost of Britain is...
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OFTEC WELCOMES INCLUSION OF OIL IN ECO3 – OilFiredUp
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OFTEC has welcomed the announcement from the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) that oil boilers will not be excluded from the next phase of the Energy Company Obligation scheme (ECO3) as initially proposed.The decision follows responses by...
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NEW ECO3 PROPOSALS DISCRIMINATE AGAINST RURAL HOUSEHOLDS, SAYS OFTEC – OilFiredUp
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OFTEC has expressed major concerns that government proposals to exclude oil boilers from the next round of the Energy Company Obligation (ECO) scheme would unfairly discriminate against rural households and lead to even higher levels of fuel poverty.Last month BEIS...
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Grant UK supports YTIC training centrein Cardiff – OilFiredUp
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Your Training and Inspections Centre (YTIC) has recently welcomed the addition of new Grant oil boilers and displays to its premises in Llanishen Cardiff.Earlier this summer, Grant UK supplied a selection of its Vortex and VortexBlue oil fired condensing boilers...
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BSRIA WORLD HEAT PUMP STUDY 2018 – FAST GROWTH – OilFiredUp
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A recent BSRIA study on Global Heat Pumps published in May 2018 indicates sales of hydronic heat pumps progressed at a fast rate in 2017. Year-on-year, sales of hydronic heat pumps had a sustained growth of 32 per cent to...
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FPS Fights Fuel Poverty In The Midlands With Funds Award For Four Heat Heroes – OilFiredUp
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The Federation of Petroleum Suppliers (FPS), together with Midlands-based heating oil distributors, AID Fuels, Nolan Oils and Midland Fuels Oils have been fundraising to help those in fuel poverty and have awarded £11,594 to four National Energy Action Heat Heroes...
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American Oil Production Disappoints – OilFiredUp
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Oil derricks over American flagU.S. oil production may be growing more slowly than everyone thinks.In May American drillers pumped 10.442 million barrels a day, which is about 300,000 fewer barrels per day than the Energy Information Administration had projected. In...
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BP hikes its dividend on buoyant oil market – OilFiredUp
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Oil giant BP see profits soar for the first time in four years after a rise in crude prices helped it post bumper profits.Underlying replacement cost profit, a key industry measure, hit $28bn (£23bn) in the six months to June,...
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ADBA calls for sector deal support in Budget submission – OilFiredUp
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In advance of the Budget on 22 November, ADBA has sent its top policy asks to Exchequer Secretary Andrew Jones MP.As the government looks ahead to the publication of the Industrial Strategy White Paper, ADBA has highlighted the strong business case...
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CHANGE IN DYNAMICS FOR DOMESTIC & COMMERCIAL GLOBAL BOILERS – OilFiredUp
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Driven by environmental policies uptake and increasing gasification in Asia Pacific, the domestic boiler market grew in 2017 to 15 million units, with China recording the most “dynamic market uptake”.Socrates Christidis, Senior Market Intelligence Analyst, BSRIA’s World Market Intelligence Division,...
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