renewable heat incentive (rhi), page-6

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The Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) will provide financial support for those who install renewable heating, which qualifies for support under the scheme.

These proposals have been developed with input from our stakeholders - energy industry trade associations, Ofgem and NGOs - and this consultation constitutes a more formal opportunity for all interested parties to have their say on the details of the RHI mechanism.

[Comment: Offgen and NGO's, oh dear, all highly commercial outward thing persons]

The Government proposes the following key aspects of the RHI:

* The scheme should support a range of technologies, including air and ground-source heat pumps (and other geothermal energy), solar thermal, biomass boilers, renewable combined heat and power, use of biogas and bioliquids and the injection of biomethane into the natural gas grid.

[Picking a series of technologies, NOT picking an outcome and rewarding different approaches, some of which the bureaucracy may not (yet) have thought of]

* Support heating at all scales, including households, businesses, offices, public sector buildings and industrial processes in large factories.

* Tariff levels have been calculated to bridge the financial gap between the cost of conventional and renewable heat systems at all scales, with additional compensation for certain technologies for an element of the non-financial cost and a rate of return of 12% on the additional cost of renewables, with 6% for solar thermal.

[Solar thermal as a deserving technology.]

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