It qualifies for commercial RHI because of heating more than one home, someone is making a fortune off your heating!

The RHI gives a reasonable return but hardly a fortune, what it does do is bring the payback on many of these schemes into the period that companies are willing to invest and the anticipated new changes will enhance this.

Re: Supermarkets, one option is to recondition the heat rejected from chillers and use if for heating. At least one supermarket is already doing this.

The ground source guys I work with reckon it takes a year of monitoring before they get the maximum out of their system.

8.2p/kwhr gives a fair return, especially as this plant is next to a saw mill so free fuel and it sounds like the people are paying for their heat…..

over 20 years too..

May well be more that 200 KWth so on the next tier and only applies to space heating not hot water so ok not great depends on the cost of the boiler, long term maintenance costs etc. Too small for me, but certainly a good scheme from which no one is going to get rich, you need to generate far more return and have a yield compression strategy to do that.

Re: Supermarkets, one option is to recondition the heat rejected from chillers and use if for heating. At least one supermarket is already doing this.

To be fair, there are hundreds of supermarkets which do this. It’s how they do it which is interesting.

Mefty – yes not going to get rich on it, but someone is receiving a fair amount of cash off of it over 20 years.