The Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme Regulations 2011

Periodic support payments for accredited RHI installations in simple systems

This section has no associated Explanatory Memorandum

38.—(1) This regulation applies to participants who own an accredited RHI installation (“the installation”) which—

(a)is generating and supplying heat solely for one or more eligible purposes used in one building;

(b)does not deliver heat by steam; and

(c)is not a CHP system.

(2) Subject to regulations 40 and 41, participants shall be paid a periodic support payment for the installation in respect of each quarterly period calculated in accordance with one of the following formulae, as applicable—

(a)A x B; or

(b)where the installation is generating heat from the combustion of biogas, A x (B – C),

where—

A is the tariff for the installation determined in accordance with regulation 37;

B is the heat in kWhth generated by the installation during the relevant quarterly period; and

C is the heat in kWhth directed from the installation or delivered by any other source to the biogas production plant which produced the biogas combusted in the relevant quarterly period (other than heat contained in feedstock used to produce biogas by anaerobic digestion).