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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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Rural homes Yorkshire

Taxpayer cost to decarbonise all oil homes in the UK could cost billions or it could cost nothing – the Government has a choice

Thursday, September 11, 2025 by OFTEC

If the 1.7m oil heated homes in the UK each claimed the existing £7,500 government subsidy to switch to a heat pump, the total cost to the taxpayer could be billions of pounds.

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MPs urged to back affordable green heating campaign for oil heated homes

Thursday, July 31, 2025 by OFTEC

Local MPs representing rural constituencies are being urged to call on the government to deliver more affordable low carbon heating solutions for the 1.7m homes in the UK currently using oil heating.

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