Renewable Heat Incentive launched this month

One of the Government’s flagship green energy schemes, the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) will be launched later this month after 2 months of frustrating delays caused by the European Commission’s concerns regarding the tariff level proposed for biomass technologies. The Renewable Heat Incentive coming in to force this month will be for Commercial installs only, with the domestic Renewable Heat Incentive expected to be implemented to coincide with Green Deal in Autumn 2012.

The Renewable Heat Incentive which will work in much the same way as the Feed in Tariff scheme, paying the system owner a tariff rate for every kWh of heating energy produced. Most technologies allowable under the Renewable Heat Incentive will represent an ideal opportunity for hotels, sport centres and industrial sites with large hot water requirements to significantly reduce their heating and hot water bills in addition to, reducing their carbon footprint. Allowable technologies under the Renewable Heat Incentive include; solar thermal (pictured above), heat pumps, biomass, bioliquids and biomethane.