The much-hyped Green Deal - was that it???!

[ThrustSSC]

Having hung on with bated breath for months to hear what the Government was FINALLY going to do with the Renewable Heat Incentive for domestic properties - which was to include subsidies to change your oil-guzzling old boiler for a new log-gasification/woodchip-burning/pellet-burning one - it appears the answer is a big, round zero :-(

 

What a waste of time that was. And the commercial property owners raking in their subsidies must be laughing their heads off.

 

What incentive is there for Johnny and Jayne in their big country house to take inconvenient chip/pellet/logs instead of oil? Oil costs a similar amount. It's far more convenient. The boiler are more proven, smaller and likely more reliable until fuel quality is a sorted-out factor. I think the answer is 'none' and I'm gobsmacked. What a lost opportunity to cut carbon emissions in this country :-(

 

Of course, the reason is they've overspent the green budget...

 

And by the way, if you're daft enough to take up their 'amazing' Green Deal offer and fit a new chip-burning boiler, the interest rate you'll pay will be likely be north of 9%!

 

Best instead to just add it to the mortgage next time you renew it, then...

 

What a crying shame. I was looking forward to building a biomass business to meet the demand. No point now... :-(

[WorcsWuss]

They just doubled the rhi on ground source.....

[Woodworks]

I thought the RHI had not yet been introduced yet but I must admit to not keeping up with all the latest installments from the "greenest government ever"

[ThrustSSC]

I thought the RHI had not yet been introduced yet but I must admit to not keeping up with all the latest installments from the "greenest government ever"

 

RHI for commercial is all there.

RHI for domestic is now part of the Green Deal i.e. you borrow the money to do it a exorbitant interest rates then pay it back through your electricity bill.

[Woodworks]

RHI for commercial is all there.

RHI for domestic is now part of the Green Deal i.e. you borrow the money to do it a exorbitant interest rates then pay it back through your electricity bill.

 

Ah that's what happened to the RHI. I am glad we have not been caught up in this latest fiasco. We installed a GSHP some time back with a straightforward £1200 grant with no strings. Its a shame that such a mess has been made of these latest incentives as it all promised so much.

[Bombadil]

Politicians and their promises, eh?

(Am I in danger of sounding cynical here?)

 

Come on then Dave, get herself home from bloody Liberia and sort it out!

[Greg S]

RHI for commercial is all there.

RHI for domestic is now part of the Green Deal i.e. you borrow the money to do it a exorbitant interest rates then pay it back through your electricity bill.

 

Can you clarify the source of that info? - Green Deal has been on the cards for ages (as has domestic RHI), I totally agree they're taking their time to make it happen but the government website https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/increasing-the-use-of-low-carbon-technologies/supporting-pages/renewable-heat-incentive-rhi still says it's being rolled out this summer - with a couple of tweeks for payments against each technology (already mentioned for heat pumps) which were anounced at the end of last year. I might be missing something, but as far as I can figure it's still going ahead - and I'm about to invest so please direct to info if it really has all changed....

 

Greg

[ThrustSSC]

Can you clarify the source of that info? - Green Deal has been on the cards for ages (as has domestic RHI), I totally agree they're taking their time to make it happen but the government website https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/increasing-the-use-of-low-carbon-technologies/supporting-pages/renewable-heat-incentive-rhi still says it's being rolled out this summer - with a couple of tweeks for payments against each technology (already mentioned for heat pumps) which were anounced at the end of last year. I might be missing something, but as far as I can figure it's still going ahead - and I'm about to invest so please direct to info if it really has all changed....

 

Greg

 

That page is the only one I can find that seems to think RHI is still going ahead for domestic. They've said for months that it'll come under the Green Deal when it is implemented. Problem is EVERY other one - and especially all the Green Deal sites - say there is no subsidy, just the extortionate loans repaid through the electricity bill.

 

I'd love you to prove me wrong. But there is absolutely no mention in GD stuff released this week of subsidies, so you can be sure they're now dead on the domestic side, I fear :-(

[likeitorlumpit]

Can any future green deal please be backdated to allow me some RHI with our wood heating= log burners. I don't see why these are left out as they are surely greener than solar and more local. Does RHI only apply to green energy that would be uneconomic to install without a subsidy.

[Alycidon]

I was also looking to build a wood fuel business based on RHI and get qualified to supply and install the boilers etc.

 

When did this change come about?.

 

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