Future support for low carbon heat

Heating of homes, businesses and industry is responsible for a third of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions, and decarbonisation of heat is one of the biggest challenges we face in meeting our climate targets.

This consultation sets out proposals for:

• a Green Gas Support Scheme (GGSS): increasing the proportion of green gas in the grid through support for biomethane injection
• a Clean Heat Grant: support for heat pumps and in certain circumstances biomass, through an upfront capital grant to help address the barrier of upfront cost
• budget control and financial management of the spending proposals for green gas and buildings technologies
• participant compliance

29 May 2020: ‘Green Gas: Ensuring value for money’ consultation section

We have provided further information on 2 proposals in this section:

• requesting more detailed costing information
• tariff review

We are working with devolved administrations to implement these proposals across Great Britain.

We have published the Impact Assessment to accompany these proposals.

Interaction with the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) schemes

In the March 2020 budget, the government announced:

• an extension to the domestic RHI for a further year to 31 March 2022
• the introduction of a flexible, third allocation of tariff guarantees on the non-domestic RHI. The non-domestic RHI will close to new applications on 31 March 2021

Alongside this consultation we have also published:

• a consultation on the Non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive: ensuring a sustainable scheme
• an outline of Changes to the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) schemes

Please do not send responses by post to the department during the coronavirus lockdown period as we will not be able to access them.