Oil Systems
These work in the same way as gas powered heating systems, but with a different fuel source.
One of the important issues is to ensure that you don't pay too much for the heating oil. It is difficult to affect the price of the oil, but you can do something to reduce the costs of getting the oil to your home. Oil buying clubs work to deliver lower cost oil by linking purchasers together so that delivery lorries will do multiple deliveries in one area, thus reducing the delivery cost.
There are a number of oil buying clubs in the south west, for example:
Witheridge Oil Purchase Energy Cooperative (North Devon, West Somerset) www.wopec.net
Somerset Community OIl Buying Scheme www.somersetrcc.org.uk/oil-scheme.php
My Consortium Purchasing Scheme (Dorset & South Somerset) www.myconsortium.co.uk
Devon Oil Collective www.devonrcc.org.uk/c/63/the-devon-oil-collective
Community Energy Club (Cornwall) www.communityenergyclub.org.uk
These work in the same way as gas powered heating systems, but with a different fuel source.
One of the important issues is to ensure that you don't pay too much for the heating oil. It is difficult to affect the price of the oil, but you can do something to reduce the costs of getting the oil to your home. Oil buying clubs work to deliver lower cost oil by linking purchasers together so that delivery lorries will do multiple deliveries in one area, thus reducing the delivery cost.
There are a number of oil buying clubs in the south west, for example:
Witheridge Oil Purchase Energy Cooperative (North Devon, West Somerset) www.wopec.net
Somerset Community OIl Buying Scheme www.somersetrcc.org.uk/oil-scheme.php
My Consortium Purchasing Scheme (Dorset & South Somerset) www.myconsortium.co.uk
Devon Oil Collective www.devonrcc.org.uk/c/63/the-devon-oil-collective
Community Energy Club (Cornwall) www.communityenergyclub.org.uk