Businesses with oil tanks to benefit from new energy support scheme

Simon Coveney, the Minister for Enterprise, has launched a new scheme to cover half of the increased energy costs for 22,000 businesses that use oil-tanks.

These businesses had previously been excluded from the government’s temporary business energy support scheme (TBEES) - which was focused on businesses using electricity and gas - despite soaring oil prices. The cost of refilling oil tanks rose by around 64 per cent last year due to the impact of the ...