A brand new survey of off-gas grid shoppers reveals issues over the price of transitioning to low carbon heating.  

The survey of 1,364 households that use oil heating, carried out by commerce associations OFTEC and UKIFDA, revealed 60% of respondents are extra nervous concerning the prices of switching to low carbon heating techniques than they had been three years in the past. 

The survey additionally revealed that just about half of respondents (46%) surveyed have written to their native MP to ask for readability over the modifications they are going to be anticipated to make to their residence. Over 98% assist giving oil heated houses the selection of switching to a renewable liquid gasoline equivalent to Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO). 

Paul Rose, CEO of OFTEC, and Ken Cronin, CEO of UKIFDA, mentioned: “Decarbonising the UK’s 1.7 million oil heated houses is a posh problem as they face distinctive obstacles because of their age, development and rural location. Authorities coverage should due to this fact give attention to desired outcomes relatively than mandating a single know-how, equivalent to electrification, which in lots of circumstances isn’t sensible or reasonably priced.” 

“A real know-how impartial technique would give households actual alternative and unlock a wider mixture of value efficient and sensible low carbon choices. This contains renewable liquid fuels which have already been efficiently demonstrated in round 150 off-grid buildings.”