Government roll out of the scheme
The Government will take a phased approach to implementing the
Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI). Initially, in the first phase,
long-term tariff support will be targeted at the big emitters in
the non-domestic sector. This sector, which covers everything from
large-scale industrial heating to small business and community
heating projects.
As part of the first phase, the
Government will also introduce
Renewable Heat Premium Payments for the domestic sector.
They have ring-fenced funding of around £15 million,
which will be used to make premium payments to households who
install renewable heating. These direct payments will subsidise the
cost of installing qualifying renewable heating systems. In return
for the payments, participants will be asked to provide some
feedback on how the equipment works in practice and suppliers will
be asked to provide a follow up service on any issues that are
raised. This will boost confidence in the technology and the
information we receive will help enable Government, manufacturers,
installers and consumers to better understand how to maximise
performance of the various technologies. The Renewable Heat Premium
Payments will support a spread of technologies across all regions
of Great Britain and will cover households using gas and other
fossil fuels. This scheme was launched by
Energy Saving Trust in July 2011.
A second phase of RHI support including long-term tariff support
for the domestic sector will then be introduced in 2012 to coincide
with the introduction of the Green Deal for Homes. People in
receipt of the Renewable Heat Premium Payments will be able to
receive long term RHI tariff support once these tariffs are
introduced as will anybody who has installed an eligible
installation since 15 July 2009.
Find out more through Department for Energy and Climate Change
guidance document below
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Renewable Heat Incentive guidance
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The types of technologies you culd install in your home are;
The Renewable Heat Premium Payment scheme will run from
1 August 2011 – 31 March 2012. However, you can
register your interest beforehand.
Department for Energy And Climate Change (DECC) Low Carbon Heat
Plans
Latest carbon heat plan press release from 30
March 2012.
All new UK heat map produced by DECC
The National Heat Map was commissioned by the Department of
Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and created by The Centre for
Sustainable Energy. The purpose of the Map is to support planning
and deployment of local low-carbon energy projects in England.
How it was done
The National Heat Map is built from a bottom-up address level
model of heat demand in England. The model estimates the total heat
demand of every address in England, but based on published
sub-national energy consumption statistics and without making use
of metered energy readings.
Heat demand density web maps were produced from this model,
covering Residential, Commercial, Industrial, Public Buildings
(DECs) and Total heat demand.
In addition point locations for Combined Heat and Power plants
and Power Stations were mapped along with Local Authority and
regional boundaries.
For both residential and non-residential models, heat demand was
first estimated at address level using a range of data sources.
These estimates were then used in a weighted disaggregation of
known small-area average heating fuel consumption.
It aims to achieve this by providing publicly accessible
high-resolution web-based maps of heat demand by area.
View
the heat map