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Government must develop a more inclusive UK Low Carbon Heat Policy which addresses the key issues of energy efficiency and fuel poverty alongside efforts to reduce carbon emissions from heating in off-grid homes, says OFTEC.The government’s current focus on renewable...

Record First Quarter For Scottish Renewables GenerationScotland’s wind farms generated record amounts of power in the first quarter of 2015 according to new data published last week. Statistics also confirmed that Scotland achieved record levels of ‘green’ energy generation in 2014, with...

Scottish Renewables Low Carbon Heat Conference Set For PerthScotland must kick its addiction to conventional gas-fired boilers (and presumably LPG and heating oil fired boilers too) and embrace renewable heat ,if it is to hit challenging 2020 targets, a major...

QSS Tanks Goes Into LiquidationOilFiredUp understands oil tank manufacturer Quality Storage Solutions Limited (QSS Ltd.) has been placed into voluntary liquidation. The Worcestershire based company, which manufactured and supplied diesel and heating oil tanks under the QSS brand, is understood...

Danske Bank’s Ciaran McLaughlin is pictured with LCC directors Dan and Michael Loughran at the company’s oil terminal at Foyle PortLCC Group, an energy firm based in Cookstown County Tyrone, has bought an oil terminal in Maydown, Co. Derry in...

The Committee on Fuel Poverty has produced a list of recommendations in its first report which is to be launched on Friday 23 September at the annual conference of fuel poverty charity National Energy Action.The committee has set out a...

Thanks to the global increase in oil prices BP’s profits more than doubled in 2017.In 2017 BP made $6.2bn ($4.4bn), up from $2.6bn in 2016.Chief executive Bob Dudley said it “as one of the strongest years in BP’s recent history”.The...

Paul Rose OFTEC Chief Executive 2016The new Chief Executive for OFTEC (Oil Firing Technical Association) is to be Paul Rose, who will take over on 1 August 2016 from outgoing Director General Jeremy Hawksley, following Jeremy’s retirement.Currently Technical Director for OFTEC,...

Oklahoma Rig ExplosionThe explosion happened at approximately 8.45am Monday in eastern OklahomaThere were more than 20 employees at the well when the explosion occured Fires continued for hours after the incidentFive people are reported as missing after an explosion ripped through...

The Consumer Council strongly welcomes today’s announcement by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive that there has been a significant drop in fuel poverty in Northern Ireland from 42% of households in 2011, to 22% in 2016.John French, Chief Executive of...