PART 3 Amendment of the Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme Regulations 2018

CHAPTER 9 Amendment of Schedules

Insertion of Schedule 4A

39.  After Schedule 4 (land criteria) insert—

Regulation 47

“SCHEDULE 4A Solid biomass which is wood: Criteria for woodfuel quality

1.   This Schedule applies to solid biomass (excluding solid biomass contained in waste) which—

(a) is woodfuel; and

(b) is used to generate heat in an accredited RHI installation.

2.   All wood pellets must meet the ENplus A1 standard(1) or an equivalent standard.

3.   All other woodfuel must meet fuel quality standard EN 15234-1: 2011(2), ISO 9001: 2015(3) or EN ISO 17225-4: 2014(4) or an equivalent standard.

4.   All woodfuel must be certified by the Woodsure Certification Scheme(5) or an equivalent certification scheme as meeting the standard in paragraph 2 or 3.

5.   The certification scheme must provide assurance of the supply chain of the woodfuel.

6.   In this Schedule, “woodfuel” means—

(a) woodchip;

(b) logs;

(c) wood pellets; and

(d) wood briquettes,

regardless of whether the wood will undergo any other process before burning.”.

(1)

Accessible through the ENplus website (https://www.enplus-pellets.eu/en-in/).

(2)

Available at https://standards.iteh.ai/catalog/standards/cen/18307fb9-4548-40e6-8352-b7f0c462768e/en-15234-1-2011 .

(3)

Available at https://www.iso.org/standard/62085.html.

(4)

Available at https://standards.iteh.ai/catalog/standards/cen/acae5637-0946-4570-8613-eac7a6be6b27/en-iso-17225-1-2014 .

(5)

Accessible through the Woodsure website (https://woodsure.co.uk/about-woodsure/).