Posted by Matt Mcghie, on January 22, 2021.
You could get money towards renewable heating costs in your home.
The renewable heat incentive is a government-backed scheme that aims to financially incentivise home and business owners to use renewable technologies to heat homes and businesses.
You can claim for:
- biomass boilers
- solar water heating
- certain heat pumps
People who join the scheme and stick to its rules will receive quarterly payments over 7 years for the amount of clean green renewable heat it is estimated their system will produce.
Who is eligible for the RHI scheme?
Anyone who meets the joining requirements. It is for households both off and on the gas grid. For more information.
To comply with the rules within the scheme the installer of your renewable technology must be MCS registered, if they are not you will not be eligible for the quarterly payments.
What is MCS? Do I need a MCS certified installer?
The Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS) certifies, quality assures and provides consumer protection for microgeneration installations and installers. These consist of small scale renewable technologies that produce electricity or heat such as solar PV, biomass, wind, heat pumps and heat products.
The sole purpose of the MCS scheme is to cover areas such as the design, supply, installation, working principles, commissioning and handover of the microgeneration renewable technologies.
We have been installing heat pumps for around 10 years and have gained a fair amount of on-site experience. To become MCS registered we have to sit regular training courses on energy efficiency, ground source heat pumps and air source heat pumps, this is to ensure the Installation meets the high standards of the scheme.