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‘MIXED TECHNOLOGY’ APPROACH TO HEAT DECARBONISATION COULD SAVE 1.9 MILLION TONNES OF CO2 EMISSIONS PER YEAR – LGI… The role of LPGandBioLPG in a ‘just transition’
L iquid Gas Ireland (LGI) has published a series of new county reports on the role of LPG and BioLPG in a ‘just transition’ for rural Ireland. The 25-county report sets out the savings that could be made if the two-thirds of homes in rural Ireland currently using high carbon fossil-based fuels such as oil, coal and turf for home heating and as an energy source switch to a lower carbon alternative such as LPG or BioLPG instead of retrofitting for installation of heat pump systems. The savings were based on an average cost of €56,000 for a full-scale retrofit including heat pump installation and an industry estimate of €5,000 for switching to an LPG/BioLPG boiler with standard system upgrades.
‘MIXED TECHNOLOGY’ LGI highlights that there is no single solution to decarbonising heating systems and acknowledged the important role lower carbon and renewable gas should play, alongside other renewable heat technologies. Commenting on the reports,
carbon fossil-based fuels for home heating and the significant estimated costs facing those homes to transition to heat pump technology vs a lower carbon or renewable gas boiler. The reports can be accessed here: https://www.lgi.ie/news/the-role-of-lpg- and-biolpg-in-a-just-transition/ For more information, call: +1 500 0810, email: info@lgi.ie or visit: lgi.ie liquid-gas-ireland LiquidGasIE
Chair of LGI Brian Derham said, “A ‘mixed technology’ approach to heat decarbonisation, which includes lower- carbon fuels such as LPG and BioLPG could save about 1.9 million tonnes of CO2 emissions per year if 500,000 rural homes currently using oil-fired central heating switched to BioLPG by 2040.” The county reports were conducted using CSO census data and name the electoral areas in each county most reliant on high
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