Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme

(asked on 23rd November 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many new applications have been made to the domestic Renewable Heat Incentive scheme since it opened in April 2014 for (a) air-source and (b) ground and water-source heat pumps; and what the annual cost to the public purse was of each of those subsidies.


Answered by
Jesse Norman Portrait
Jesse Norman
This question was answered on 29th November 2016

The following tables show the number of total applications for air source heat pumps and ground source heat pumps under the domestic Renewable Heat Incentive. The latest application data the department has is up to the end of October 2016; as such 2016 does not represent a full year of applications.

Air source heat pumps

2014

2015

2016

Total applications (new and legacy)

7,689

13,714

4,783

Actuals and Accruals

£1,873,300

£11,027,489

£13,317,544

Ground source heat pumps

2014

2015

2016

Total applications (new and legacy)

3,127

3,727

1,131

Actuals and Accruals

£3,073,978

£16,554,779

£19,054,131

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