According to the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS), over 65% of oil-heated properties in England alone fall into the lowest EPC bands, E-G, and would require serious investment to bring them up to the standard necessary for effective heat pump use.
Rural consumers also typically have lower disposable incomes and little or no savings, and suffer significantly deeper levels of fuel poverty. Even with the support of welcome initiatives such as the Green Homes Grant scheme, most still won’t be able to afford the level of action required for heat pump and biomass installations.
More than most, rural households need decarbonisation solutions they can practically afford to implement.
Even the National Grid, which you may assume would back the use of electric heat pumps for off-grid homes, states in its Future Energy Scenarios 2020 report that biofuels – both liquid and gas – will be essential to transition rural homes to net-zero heat due to the high cost of upgrading the rural network.
HVO will most certainly be a fuel that is used to help reduce our carbon footprint. DCR is working alongside a number of manufacturers and suppliers to ensure our engineers are trained and ready to provide this fuel option to our customers if this is either through a burner upgrades or new oil boiler installation.
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