SMEs will be able to apply for a 75% cashback grant up to £10,000 for renewable heat measures and a 30% cashback grant for energy efficiency measures up to £10,000

Collectively, the sites could ‘create over 8000 new jobs and increase the UK’s clean heat output by almost 3TWh per year’

The regulations will also be phased in for non-domestic buildings given consent to build from 2024

Ofgem has confirmed it is investigating three cases of suspected fraud related to the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme in Northern Ireland. The values range from £48,000 to £350,000 while the third could potentially be worth around £2.5 million. The information was provided in response to a freedom of information request. Under the RHI scheme, […]

More social landlords and tenants could soon benefit from renewable heating following changes to the government’s support scheme. From Spring 2015, registered social landlords will no longer need to have had a Green Deal energy efficiency assessment to apply for Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) payments as long as they have an Energy Performance Certificate that […]

Householders in Scotland could save or £151 million every year by installing renewable heating technologies, new research claims. A YouGov poll by the Energy Saving Trust (EST) found although people know technologies such as biomass boilers and ground source heat pumps are cheap ways to heat their homes, more than half (51%) think they are […]

A new online tool which shows how consumers can benefit by installing renewable heating systems – such as solar thermal panels and ground source heat pumps – has been launched. DECC’s ‘Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) calculator allows people to check how much money they could be paid through the scheme, depending on the type of […]

Grants to install green heating in homes were finally made available by government today. Called the domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI), it will pay people for the green heat they generate. Anyone from home owners and social and private landlords are eligible, both on and off the gas grid. The domestic RHI includes biomass heating […]

The Government has awarded a share of £5 million to get more renewable heating in the homes of tenants. A total of 57 landlords have won the cash, which will be used to install a range of renewable heating kit such as air and ground source heat pumps, solar thermal and biomass boilers in social […]

Hundreds of tenants in Gloucestershire will soon benefit from renewable heating systems after Stroud District Council was awarded the largest amount of funding under the Government’s energy initiative. The Council won nearly £900,000 under the latest round of DECC’s Renewable Heat Premium Payment (RHPP) competition. Stroud District Council will replace heating oil with air source […]