A Selection of grants and payments  planned next year in the UK for renewable energy or energy saving projects (This is probably not a full list please email me with any additions you know about)

Link to page on current (2009) payments

Renewable heat incentive for household or business i.e. solar hot water systems Link


Renewable Heat Incentive - the highlights

  • Earn a regulated income from every kilowatt hour of heat produced
  • Tariff level set by government - based on technology and size
  • Comes into force April 2011
  • All renewable heat qualifies
  • Household and business users
  • No maximum size
  • Bonus for exporting to heat network
  • Tariffs for biogas injection to gas grid

 

Technology

Tariff per kilowatt-hour

Official*

Modelled*

Anaerobic digestion

 

5.33 p

Bio-fuel heating

 

 

Dedicated biomass

 

3.0 p

Energy from waste

 

0.5 p

Fuel cells

 

 

Gasification and pyrolysis

 

4.5 p

Geothermal

 

4.0 p

Heat pumps:

 

 

-       Air source

 

6.0 p

-       Ground source

 

9.0 p

-       Water source

 

9.0 p

Landfill gas

 

0.5 p

Micro-CHP (fossil fuelled)

 

 

Sewage gas

 

0.5 p

Solar thermal

 

16 p

*   Official = the government’s proposed figures

Modelled = the first estimates published by the industry

Link

Renewable Electricity funding coming next year

Under consultation see Link
Probably about 35P per unit feed in tariff (feed your renewable electricity back into the grid) proposed to be for the life of the installation ie 25 years

 

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