DECC announced yesterday the following in connection with the
RHI:
As you will be aware, DECC was planning to launch the Renewable
Heat Incentive (RHI) for non-domestic generators on 30 September
2011. State Aid approval is a necessary condition for the scheme to
go ahead. As part of that process, the European Commission has
expressed concerns that the large biomass tariff is set too
high. We understand that the Commission has given state aid
approval for the RHI, subject to a reduction in the large biomass
tariff and we expect to receive written confirmation of this very
soon.
Changing the large biomass tariff will require the RHI
regulations to be amended and submitted to Parliament for
approval. We are unable to launch the scheme as a whole until
this process has been completed. Therefore, unfortunately, we will
not be able to open the scheme for applications on 30 September
2011 as we had originally planned.
