Introductory Text
PART 1 INTRODUCTORY
1.Citation and commencement
2.Interpretation
3.Renewable heat incentive scheme
PART 2 ELIGIBILITY AND MATTERS RELATING TO ELIGIBILITY
CHAPTER 1 Eligible installations
4.(1) A plant meets the criteria for being an eligible...
CHAPTER 2 Eligibility criteria for technologies
5.Eligible installations generating heat from solid biomass
6.Eligible installations generating heat from solid biomass contained in municipal waste
7.Eligible installations generating heat using solar collectors
8.Eligible installations generating heat using heat pumps
9.Eligible installations which are CHP systems
10.Eligible installations generating heat using geothermal sources
11.Eligible installations generating heat using biogas
12.Other eligibility requirements for technologies
13.MCS certification for microgeneration heating equipment
14.Plants comprised of more than one plant
15.Excluded plants
CHAPTER 3 Eligibility criteria in relation to metering and steam measuring
16.Metering of plants in simple systems
17.Metering of plants in complex systems
18.Shared meters
19.Metering of CHP systems generating electricity only before 1st September 2010
20.Matters relating to all heat meters and steam measuring equipment
21.Additional metering requirements for plants generating heat from biogas
PART 3 ACCREDITATION AND REGISTRATION
22.Applications for accreditation
23.Exceptions to duty to accredit
24.Changes in ownership
25.Producers of biomethane
26.Preliminary accreditation
PART 4 ONGOING OBLIGATIONS FOR PARTICIPANTS
CHAPTER 1 Ongoing obligations relating to the use of solid biomass to generate heat
27.Interpretation
28.Participants using solid biomass contained in municipal waste
29.Participants using solid biomass in accredited RHI installations with an installation capacity of between 45kWth and 1MWth
CHAPTER 2 Ongoing obligations relating to the use of biogas to generate heat and the production of biomethane for injection
30.Biogas produced from gasification or pyrolysis
31.Participants generating heat from biogas
32.Biomethane producers
CHAPTER 3 Ongoing obligations relating to other matters
33.Ongoing obligations: general
34.Ongoing obligations in relation to metering
35.Ongoing obligations in relation to the provision of information
PART 5 PERIODIC SUPPORT PAYMENTS
36.Payment of periodic support payments to participants
37.Periodic support payments for accredited RHI installations in simple systems
38.Periodic support payments accredited RHI installations for complex systems
39.Fossil fuel contamination of solid biomass and fossil fuel used for permitted ancillary purposes
40.Fossil fuel contamination adjustment to periodic support payments for producers and combusters of biogas produced from gasification and pyrolysis
41.Periodic support payments to producers of biomethane
PART 6 ADDITIONAL RHI CAPACITY
42.Treatment of additional RHI capacity
PART 7 ENFORCEMENT
43.Power to temporarily withhold periodic support payments to investigate alleged non-compliance
44.Power to suspend periodic support payments where ongoing failure to comply
45.Power to permanently withhold or reduce a participant’s periodic support payments
46.Revocation of accreditation or registration
47.Overpayment notices and offsetting
PART 8 REVOCATION OF SANCTIONS
48.Revocation of Part 7 sanctions
PART 9 INSPECTION
49.Power to inspect accredited RHI installations
PART 10 REVIEWS
50.Right of review
PART 11 ADMINISTRATIVE FUNCTIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT AND NOTICES
51.Publication of guidance and publication of specified information on the Department’s website
52.Notices
Signature
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1
1.Information required for accreditation and registration
SCHEDULE 2
Provision of information in relation to the use of biomass in certain circumstances
1.Information to be provided to the Department where biomass is used for combustion or production of biomethane
2.The information is information identifying to the best of the...
3.The information specified in paragraph 2 must be collated by...
4.The information specified in paragraph 2 must be provided for...
5.For the purpose of this Schedule— “energy crop” means a...
SCHEDULE 3 - Tariffs
Table 1
Explanatory Note