MP Visits Village Powered by HVO as Part of New Trial
(Biofuels International) A UK MP visited the first-ever fossil free village, which is run using HVO. The Camborne and Redruth MP visited the Cornish village of Kehelland, where properties, including the local church, school, businesses and homes, have been converted to run on the biofuel.
The MP met with village residents and industry leaders to find out more about the trial, which is being run by local fuel distributor Mitchell & Webber as part of a National Demonstration project led by trade associations UKIFDA and OFTEC.
Mitchell & Webber’s Director John Weedon said: “Kehelland is unique as it has the most boilers converted to HVO in the UK, so we’re delighted that George Eustice MP is here to see first-hand how quick and easy a HVO conversion is, and how much impact it can have in the fight against climate change.”
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(George) Eustice added: “It was great to visit Kehelland Village recently to hear about how Mitchell & Webber’s new fuel is helping families to heat their homes. It is vital that we look to new, greener technologies to heat our homes if we are going to be able to stay on track to hit net-zero by 2050, but this is a challenge in rural areas, which often rely on oil boilers. Finding a way to allow them to convert their boilers at reasonable cost to a fuel with a lower carbon footprint may well be part of the solution in the medium term. So I’m very pleased to see that my constituency is leading the way with this nationally-leading trial of HVO.” READ MORE
MP visits first fossil free HVO village (Business Cornwall)
Excerpt from Business Cornwall: Recent research has shown that worries about the cost of installing new low-carbon heating systems are a major barrier for consumers. David Biggs, a homeowner in Kehelland, has a standard oil-fired boiler that has been converted to run on HVO. He said: “HVO is a great option for our home and we’re so pleased we made the switch – we’re saving nearly five metric tonnes of carbon every year as a result.
“We wanted to reduce our carbon emissions but the cost of installing a heat pump would have been very high for us. The simple switch in fuel was so easy, and we’ve had brilliant support from the team at Mitchell & Webber.”
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Ken Cronin, CEO at UKIFDA (UK and Ireland Fuel Distributors Association), was also present. He said: “We’re delighted to see the strides that the team at Mitchell & Webber are making in testing the efficiency of HVO as a low-carbon alternative to standard heating oil.
“This is incredibly important work and we hope that the UK Government will recognise that HVO offers a low-cost, low-disruption and reliable solution for oil-fired properties.”
“We strongly believe that HVO is the way forward for properties currently using oil-fired systems in Cornwall and across the UK, and we are calling on Mr Eustice and the UK Government to take HVO seriously as an alternative fuel and invest in it.” READ MORE
