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Written Question
Renewable Energy
Friday 6th May 2016

Asked by: Alan Campbell (Labour - Tynemouth)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many households are in receipt of (a) feed-in tariff payments from solar PV installations, (b) domestic renewal heat incentive payments and (c) both such payments.

Answered by Andrea Leadsom

By the end of March 2016, there were

  • 722,559 households with solar PV benefitting from feed-in-tariff (FIT) payments.

  • 45,789 households with installations benefitting from renewable heat incentive (RHI) payments

The number of households in receipt of both FIT and RHI payments is not available.

Source data:

FIT: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/sub-regional-feed-in-tariffs-confirmed-on-the-cfr-statistics

RHI: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/rhi-deployment-data-march-2016-q1-2016 (table 2.10)