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Renewable and efficient heating
Since heat pumps are now officially recognised by the UK government and European Union as renewable energy, they qualify for the latest incentive initiative that will come into effect from April 2011. Called the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI), it gives a fixed payment for the renewable heat generated in building. This CPD article will look at the implications of the RHI and compare some renewable heat producing options for a particular commercial building, in the light of the latest information available. Renewable heat provision includes air/ground source heat pumps, solar thermal, biomass boilers, renewable CHP and use of biogas/bioliquids.
for electricity which went live in April 2010. It has done more than anything else to accelerate the installation of renewable energy capacity in Europe. While the Renewable Heat Incentive
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(RHI) is very similar to FiTs, there are some important differences due to the fact that nearly every building in the UK generates its own heat from a gas or oil boiler. In other words, there is no national grid for heat, and so importing and exporting heat is irrelevant. To date the details of the scheme have not
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he Renewable Heat Incentive is a fixed payment for the renewable heat generated and is similar to the Feed- in Tariffs (FiTs), a comparable scheme
been finalised by the UK government, so there is some doubt as to the precise content of the scheme. Under current proposals – subject to any
changes implemented by this autumn’s government spending review – the key elements of the RHI include the following: • The scheme will support a range of renewable technologies including air- and ground-source heat pumps, solar thermal, biomass boilers, renewable CHP and use of biogas/bioliquids;
• RHI payments will be claimed by and paid to the owner of the equipment;
• In small and possibly medium-sized installations, installers and equipment will have to be certified under the
Microgeneration Certification Scheme or equivalent standard;
• The proposal is that payments are made annually for a number of years, for equipment below 45kW and quarterly for larger systems. Payments will be subject to conditions such as continued operation and maintenance of the equipment;
• Payments will be made on the amount of predicted heat output generated in kWh when installed; and
• RHI will remain open to new projects until 2020 and eligible installations completed after 15 July 2009 will benefit from the scheme.
Figure 1 indicates the proposed tariff levels within the RHI consultation document.
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