{"id":104946,"date":"2021-05-24T09:16:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T08:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crownoil.co.uk\/?p=104946"},"modified":"2025-10-29T15:44:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T15:44:58","slug":"breaking-new-ground-in-the-renewable-heating-oil-market-with-crown-hvo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crownoil.co.uk\/news\/breaking-new-ground-in-the-renewable-heating-oil-market-with-crown-hvo\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking New Ground in the Renewable Heating Oil Market with Crown HVO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Climate change is a global emergency, and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, we must switch from heating oil to renewable heating to help achieve net zero. We want to support this goal, which is why we’re thrilled to have been supporting OFTEC<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0the UK and Ireland Fuel Distributors Association (UKIFDA)<\/a>\u00a0in the early technical evaluation for building regulations and decarbonising home heating with HVO fuel as a viable clean-burning alternative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This includes supplying Crown HVO fuel<\/a> for heating oil national trials and advising OFTEC engineers and boiler manufacturers so that the fuel can be assessed and rolled out across the industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We believe these trials will play a key role in ensuring renewable liquid fuels are on the government\u2019s agenda and are included in its net-zero carbon emissions strategy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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What are the current low-carbon options being explored?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Decarbonising heat from off-grid homes and commercial buildings has been highlighted by the government as a priority towards achieving net zero due to its considerably high level of emissions. In 2015, the heating sector alone accounted for 32% of the UK\u2019s greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government\u2019s \u201cClean Growth Strategy\u201d (2017) set out plans to eradicate the installation of high-carbon fossil fuel heating in new and existing off-the-grid homes. Likewise, the \u201cFuture Homes Standard\u201d (2019) proposed that all new buildings from 2025 must be fitted with low-carbon heating to produce 75-80% lower carbon emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, heat pumps (and biomass, where heat pumps are not practical) are the routes being explored by the government\u2019s Climate Change Committee. But despite them incentivising these low-carbon technologies, there has been little uptake over the last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The roadmap to net zero carbon emissions set out in the \u201cTen Point Plan\u201d recognises the requirement to \u201cavoid the need for costly retrofit\u201d in new homes but doesn\u2019t consider the high costs needed to modify existing homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These modern solutions currently supported by the government aren\u2019t suitable for the average off-the-grid homeowner and their finances. Oil burners with heat pumps or biomass usually cost over \u00a310,000, and even with the \u00a34,000 government grant, there\u2019s still an extra \u00a36,000 that\u2019s needed to make the transition!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s not taking into account the \u00a315,000 that it will cost to bring over half of oil-heated homes up to EPC \u2018C\u2019 standard – the lowest required energy efficiency rating for these low-temperature technologies to work efficiently.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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So, what is the solution to the sector\u2019s high emissions?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Increasing evidence suggests there is a more cost-effective, practical option that has so far been overlooked in the government\u2019s roadmap to net zero. Renewable liquid fuels, such as HVO fuel<\/a> (Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil<\/a>), provide a quick and easy solution to overcome many of the current barriers to decarbonisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 45 key players in the liquid fuel heating industry have called on the government to highlight their willingness to provide a cost-effective, more pragmatic solution to decarbonising oil-heated homes over the current options being backed. This includes Kingspan and Grant Engineering, who are vowing to assist in the rapid rollout of HVO in place of heating oil during the next five years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Just like heating oil, only cleaner and better for the planet<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

HVO has been officially certified as a sustainable fuel by the ISCC (International Sustainability and Carbon Certification) and is already in widespread use in diesel engines and machinery. Using HVO in boilers will result in significantly reduced harmful CO2 <\/sub>emissions through increased burning efficiency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other key benefits of using the paraffinic diesel as a heating oil are that HVO provides a much cleaner burn compared to kerosene, and with zero aromatics, this makes it less harmful to health and the environment when storing and handling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n