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24/04/2026 7:41 pm  

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We were actually on the HVO trial a few years ago, and I have to say it’s a brilliant drop-in fuel. From a user point of view, it’s about as painless a transition as you can get from kerosene.

On supply, the picture is a bit more nuanced. OFTEC have been pretty clear that there is sufficient supply capacity, particularly because HVO is largely produced from waste streams like used cooking oil, including recycled oils from the food industry (think fast food chains), rather than relying purely on virgin crops like rapeseed or, as you put it, turnips and swedes. The issue isn’t so much availability... it’s cost.

The problem is that HVO isn't just easy to use in a boiler, it's also easy to use in trucks and lorries, so it's also being lined up to decarbonise heavy goods vehicles and mobile plant - diggers, farm equipment etc. It's also used to produce 'Sustainable Aviation Fuel' SAF, and currently there isn't a way to electrify aviation so to produce enough SAF will require vast amounts of HVO.

You put all of these different markets together, all trying to source HVO and there simply isn't enough genuine, used-cooking oil to go around.

There's been news articles where journalists have exposed that there's a growing problem of fraud, where virgin palm oil is being passed off as used-cooking oil and sold into the HVO market, to claim the product is sustainable, but when it's actually coming from palm plantations created from rain forest clearance.

 



   
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