UKIFDA’s aims to boost role of bioheat in UK and Ireland

In the UK, UKIFDA’s strategy and vision for a liquid fuel future highlights the key role liquid biofuels can and should play in heating 1.5m homes across the UK and 686,000 in the Republic of Ireland together with industry including farming, transport, construction and marine and sets five key challenges to government to:

• • Introduce energy efficiency support measures for all homes (on or off grid) irrelevant of current technology and protect the fuel poor.
• • Maintain a technology neutral approach rather than try and pick winners as decarbonization requires a multi technology solution.
• • Understand that liquid biofuels are the best solution for many, many homes in the UK and Ireland and government should support the positive, in-progress trials.
• • Pass legislation to effect fuel specification changes in agreed timelines that allows consumers to plan and for suppliers to innovate and invest to ramp up supplies of liquid biofuels.
• • Use tax rates to incentivize take up of liquid biofuels in domestic, agricultural, and commercial premises rather than using carbon tax to ramp up prices to try and force change.