Grants
Please find some links below which can be used to apply for grants :-
Commercial Biomass: Bio-Energy Capital Grants Scheme
http://www.bioenergycapitalgrants.org.uk/
Home & Business owners: Micro Certification Scheme (Solar, Heat Pumps & Biomass)
http://www.microgenerationcertification.org/
Woodfuel East Strategic Investment Support Programme and the Woodfuel East Boiler Installation Grant Scheme.
http://www.woodfueleast.org.uk/Grants.aspx
Further Grants and Support
http://www.biomassenergycentre.org.uk/portal/page?_pageid=77,15133&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
RHI ( Renewable Heat Incentive) from April 2011 - Current MCS installs eligible
On 1 February DECC published the proposed structure of the RHI which is to be introduced from April 2011. Renewable heat installations commissioned since July 2009 are due to receive a cashback subsidy, based on the deemed heat requirement of a building, of around 5.5 pence per kilowatt hour used – for the lifetime of the equipment used. The table below shows the technologies eligible for RHI, the subsidy to be received and the deemed lifetime of each technology. The RHI provides a major incentive for owners to invest in ground source heat pumps, solar thermal and other renewable heat technologies. The proposed tariffs are based on pence/kWh of renewable heat delivered. The rates and lifetimes will vary with the technology and scale used as follows:
Renewable Heat Incentive – RHI – Clean Energy Cashback
RHI table of tariffs
RHI
Scale
RHI tariffs pence/kWh
Tariff lifetime
in years
Solid biomass
45 kW
9.0
15
Bioliquids
45 kW
6.5
15
Biogas on-site
45 kW
5.5
10
Ground source heat pumps
45 kW
7.0
23
Air source heat pumps
45 kW
7.5
18
Solar thermal
20 kW
18.0
20
Solid biomass
45-500 kW
6.5
15
Biogas on-site
45-200 kW
5.5
10
Ground source heat pumps
45-350 kW
5.5
20
Air source heat pumps
45-350 kW
2.0
20
Solar thermal
20-100 kW
17.0
20
Solid biomass
500 kW
1.6-2.5
15
Ground source heat pumps
350 kW
1.5
20
Biomethane injection
All scales
4.0
15
Renewable Heat is a subset of the wider category of renewable energy, which includes the generation of electricity from wind turbines and photovoltaic cells.
According to BERR (the new name for the DTI), almost half of the final energy consumed in the UK is in the form of heat. Its generation accounts for 47% of UK CO2 emissions. Renewable Heat currently satisfies less than 1% of heat demand.
DECC (the new name for part of BERR) is encouraging Renewable Heat as part of the Government's commitment to aim for 15% renewables by 2020 and is introducing the Renewable Heat Incentive.
For the Renewable Heat technologies included, the energy ultimately comes from the sun. The sun provides planet earth with more energy each hour than human civilization uses over a whole year. The challenge is how to make use of this vast supply of incoming radiation to provide solar space heating and hot water.
Comment on the Renewable Heat Incentive
From the DECC website: To meet our 2020 15% renewable energy target, we need to develop new ways of generating renewable energy in all sectors, including heat. Heat generated from renewable sources accounts for approximately 1% of total heat demand – this may need to rise to 12% to hit our binding EU targets. We will not be able to expand renewable heat without some form of financial assistance because other forms of heat are currently cheaper. Such support will enable more people to afford renewable heat and, by expanding the market, help bring costs down more quickly.
An investment in renewable energy usually means payment of a higher capital cost to achieve lower annual running costs (and also a lower carbon emission for the benefit for the community at large). The RHI will reduce the annual running cost to a very low level and allow owners to reduce the payback period from their investment to a few years.
The RHI is calculated to offer a 12% return on initial investment
The introduction of the RHI will offer a financial reward for lower carbon emissions over the deemed life of the renewable heating technology installed. The tariffs for the Renewable Heat Incentive have been calculated to offer a rate of return of 12% on the initial investment across the tariff bands.
The introduction of the RHI coincides with a time of increasing wealth and demand for fossil fuels from an increasing world population: many pundits expect the price of oil and gas to increase much more sharply than general inflation over the next three years.
The RHI is to be paid for by a levy on suppliers of fossil fuels for heat. This is a further incentive to move from fossil fuels to renewable heat.
The RHI provides a positive step change in the business case for delivering on-site renewable heat, not only to reduce energy bills and carbon emissions, but also to deliver a energy related cash flow into your building.
Tony Grayling, head of Climate Change and Sustainable Development at the Environment Agency said: Ground source heating is a rapidly growing technology that has the potential to produce at least 30 per cent of the country’s renewable heat needs, but it needs financial support in order to grow. We would like to see this technology given adequate financial support through the new renewable heat incentive to meet its full potential in the UK.
See the DECC consultation publication of 1 February 2010: Consultation on RHI
RHI Tax free income
Tariffs will be exempt from income tax. This means that domestic users and other income tax payers will not be taxed on any income received from the Feed-In Tariffs or the Renewable Heat Incentive.
RHI Links below:
Contact us now on 01508 473070 for more information and extra discounts.