The Government has announced that its new £15 million ‘Renewable Heat Premium Payment’ scheme will open for applications on 1st August 2011. Under this scheme, Householders across the country could get up to £1,250 of government funding to help towards the cost of installing renewable heating systems such as biomass boilers, air and ground source heat pumps and solar thermal panels. The scheme will be mainly focused at around 4 million households in Great Britain not heated by mains gas, who have to rely on higher carbon forms of heating which also tend to be more expensive than gas, such as heating oil and electric fires to keep warm. The scheme will be open until March 2011 and aims to support up to 25,000 installations.
