Asked by: Graham Stringer (Labour - Blackley and Middleton South)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many installations made under the non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive scheme have been found to be non-compliant.
Answered by Claire Perry
To date Ofgem has identified 944 non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive installations as being non-compliant.
This figure includes non-compliances with or without a financial impact.
Asked by: Graham Stringer (Labour - Blackley and Middleton South)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many cases of fraud have been brought by Ofgem under the (a) non-domestic and (b) domestic Renewable Heat Incentive schemes.
Answered by Claire Perry
To date the figures supplied by Ofgem are as follows;
| Action Fraud Referrals | Open Cases | Closed cases |
Non-Domestic RHI | 15 | 21 | 43 |
Domestic RHI | 9 | 12 | 41 |
Asked by: Graham Stringer (Labour - Blackley and Middleton South)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many businesses have had boilers installed under the non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive scheme; and how many of those boilers will be inspected as part of the National Audit Office's study into that scheme.
Answered by Claire Perry
The Non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme offers support for a range of renewable heat technologies. As of end July 2017, there were 18,904 full applications to the Non-domestic RHI.
The National Audit Office operates independently of the Department. As such, we are not able to comment on their fieldwork plans.
Asked by: Graham Stringer (Labour - Blackley and Middleton South)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the average cost per kilowatt of capacity has been of installations made under the non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive scheme.
Answered by Claire Perry
The Department has produced official statistics on the average cost per kilowatt of capacity for the Non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI), split by technology, up to July 2017.
Details can be seen: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/rhi-deployment-data-july-2017
Asked by: Graham Stringer (Labour - Blackley and Middleton South)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether any installations made under the non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive scheme have been found to have been used for over 12 hours a day, seven days a week.
Answered by Claire Perry
Of the 16,496 installations (excluding biomethane) that have received a payment up to the end of July 2017, 342 installations have been used for more than 12 hours a day. This is on average over each plants lifetime on the Non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI). This has been assessed by looking at generation as a proportion of maximum capacity.
This analysis only covers installations that have submitted meter readings to Ofgem and we do not have the data to assess this for a given day. Biomethane is excluded from this analysis as it does not have a capacity from which operating hours could be assessed.