environment magazine

By Gregory Barker, MP

Fossil fuel gas currently supplies around 70% of the UK’s heat.It has proved a cheap and reliable source in the past, but with rising and volatile prices and increased dependence on imports the need to move to cleaner forms of heat is clear.

That is why we have decided to bring in the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI), aimed at dramatically increasing the amount of heat we get from renewable sources. We are putting £860m into the RHI and the scheme is expected to increase green capital investment by £7.5 billion up to 2020.

By Neil Turner RES Group

On 10 March 2011 the UK Government announced the biggest shake up of the heating industry in decades.  The Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) has been designed by the Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) to revolutionise the way buildings are heated and will mean biomass heating is financially the preferred choice in all commercial and public buildings.  It is the first financial support scheme for renewable heat in the world!