£1,250.00 Renewable Heating Voucher Deadline Extended
Renewable Heat Premium Payment Phase 2 Extension
The Renewable Heat Premium Payment is a one-off grant designed to help towards meeting the costs of installing renewable technologies in your home, until the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) is introduced for domestic customers.
An extension to the Renewable Heat Premium Payment (RHPP) scheme was announced by the Department of Energy and Climate Change on 26 March 2013. The scheme is being extended until the end of March 2014, ahead of the RHI scheme for householders.
The extension continues to offer one-off grants to householders across England, Scotland and Wales to help with the cost of installing renewable heating technologies.
What is the Renewable Heat Premium Payment?
This is a UK Government scheme designed to help you afford renewable technologies for your home, such as:
solar thermal panels
heat pumps ( air to water, ground source or water source but excluding air to air and exhaust air heat pumps)
biomass boilers.
The amount received as part of the Renewable Heat Premium Payment scheme depends on which technology you are applying for:
Technology Voucher value
Solar thermal hot water £300
Air-to-water heat pump £850
Ground-source or water-source heat pump £1250
Biomass boiler £950
The Renewable Heat Premium Payment scheme – Phase 2 extension will run from 1 April 2013 to 31 March 2014, subject to available funding.