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Electrical, Heating & Plumbing Contractors
Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI)
The Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) is the world’s first long-term financial support programme for renewable
heat. We launched the RHI in November 2011 with a scheme for the non-domestic sector that provides
payments to industry, businesses and public sector organisations.
The RHI will be expanding the existing scheme to cover additional technologies and will also offer a domestic
scheme for individual households. They intend to announce the final details in summer 2013 and open the
schemes for payment from spring 2014. Domestic customers should read their guide on the Renewable Heat
Premium Payment scheme for details of the householder voucher scheme that is currently available. The
RHPP scheme ended March 2014 being replaced by the RHI. The RHI pays participants of the scheme that
generate and use renewable energy to heat their buildings. By increasing the generation of heat from
renewable energy sources (instead of fossil fuels), the RHI helps the UK reduce greenhouse gas emissions and
meet targets for reducing climate change.
Renewable Heat Incentive
(RHI) Domestic Rates
To receive RHI for a domestic building, each system must be
installed by an MCS certified installer.
Each domestic building must show an Energy Performance
Certificate to evidence its energy use.
Each domestic building must undergo a Green Deal
Assessment.
¹ The biomass tariff may become subject to Biomass
Degression
On 9 April 2014 Ofgem opened its servers for Domestic RHI
applications. You can apply for d-RHI here.
DECC published its Domestic RHI Policy
Statement on 12 July 2013.
The RHI is the main scheme of the government’s heat strategy.
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