Policy paper

Renewable Heat Incentive policy overview

Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) provides incentives for consumers to install renewable heating in place of fossil fuels. It is open to homeowners and landlords, commercial, industrial, public, not-for-profit and community generators of renewable heat.

• From: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• Published: 1 September 2015
• Last updated: 16 February 2017 — See all updates

This was published under the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government

Documents

Domestic Publications Table

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Non Domestic publications table

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Table of regulations

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Details

Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI)

The Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) is the world’s first long-term financial support programme for renewable heat.

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 the effects of climate change.

There are two parts to the RHI:

• Domestic RHI – launched 9 April 2014 and open to homeowners, private landlords, social landlords and self-builders
• Non-domestic RHI – launched in November 2011 to provide payments to industry, businesses and public sector organisations

Domestic RHI scheme

• Find out more about the scheme, including eligibility and how to apply
• Current RHI tariffs
• Announcements and changes to tariffs
• Relevant government publications
• Changes to regulations
• RHI statistics
• RHI evaluation
• Heat technical research
• The domestic RHI payment calculator

Non-domestic RHI scheme

• Find out more about the scheme, including eligibility and how to apply
• Current RHI tariffs
• Announcements and changes to tariffs
• Relevant government publications
• Changes to regulations
• RHI statistics
• RHI evaluation
• Heat technical research

Published 1 September 2015
Last updated 16 February 2017 + show all updates

1. 16 February 2017

   Updated relevant publications and changes to regulations documents.

2. 1 September 2015

   First published.