26/09/2026
HVO heating oil: what are five years of real-world use actually showing?
A long-running UK project has now reached its fifth anniversary, giving the heating industry useful experience from homes, a school and a church using renewable liquid heating fuel.
Older oil boilers remain in service, engineers are reporting notably clean boiler internals, and the project is helping separate real-world evidence from some of the bigger claims made about HVO.
We look at what has actually been demonstrated, why correct burner conversion and commissioning matter, and what HVO could eventually mean for oil-heated properties in Northern Ireland.
Read the full article on the HCD website.
HVO heating oil has now been used in real-world homes and community buildings for five years. We look at what engineers are seeing and what remains uncertain.