The Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) has failed to provide value for money for the £23 billion that it is set to cost taxpayers, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has concluded.
Northern Ireland’s ex-first minister has denied responsibility for the province’s non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive even though she had departmental responsibility for the botched scheme.
The government should undertake a review of the under fire Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme by the end of this year, according to a new Energy UK report.
The Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) department’s top civil servant has pledged that the government will outline its review of the options for decarbonising the UK’s heat system by the end of this year.
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has issued a call for evidence to “prepare the ground” for the decarbonisation of heating.
DUP MP Ian Paisley Jr lobbied a senior Ofgem official to accept an application for lucrative subsidies under Northern Ireland’s renewable heat incentive (RHI) even through it had missed a key deadline, a public inquiry has been informed.
The government has failed to keep track of the sums paid out under the renewable heat incentive (RHI) scheme to encourage the uptake of low carbon heating systems, the National Audit Office (NAO) has concluded.