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Welcome to the OFTEC consumer pages

If your home is not on the gas grid, you will be one of around 20% of UK homes and 65% of Irish homes that have the option to choose an alternative central heating or cooking technology to mains gas. This could be a electric heating, LPG, solid fuel or the most popular off-grid option, oil heating.

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Consumer news

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OFTEC and UKIFDA respond to DESNZ announcement on Boiler Upgrade Scheme funding increase for oil and LPG users

Thursday, April 23, 2026 by OFTEC

As part of a raft of measures, on 21st April 2026, DESNZ announced an increase in Boiler Upgrade Scheme funding for properties heated by oil and LPG in England and Wales.

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Labour’s rural challenge: 16,000 oil heated households call for immediate step-change to decarbonisation plans

Tuesday, March 03, 2026 by OFTEC

The government is facing growing pressure from rural households to rethink its home heating decarbonisation plans and offer more affordable, low carbon solutions.

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