PART 5 RHI payments

26 Duty to make RHI payments
1 Subject to Parts 8 and 10, the Authority must make payments, referred to in these Regulations as “RHI payments”, to a participant (“P”) in respect of the heat generated by P’s accredited domestic plant.
2 RHI payments accrue for seven years from the tariff start date.
3 The Authority—
(a) must calculate the amount of RHI payments in accordance with regulation 27 or 28 and make RHI payments in arrears;
(b) may decide on the frequency of any RHI payments.
4 Where—
(a) the Authority does not have all of the data it requires to calculate an RHI payment; and
(b) is unable to obtain any missing data under regulation 43(4), the Authority may estimate that data in order to make that calculation.