Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI)

Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI)

The Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) is the world’s first long-term financial support programme for renewable heat. Created by the Government the scheme has been set up to promote the use of renewable heat technologies among UK homeowners. By paying participants who...
Feed-in Tariffs (FITs)

Feed-in Tariffs (FITs)

Available to those who installed a renewable or low-carbon electricity source (such as solar panels or a wind turbine), under the UK Government’s Feed-in Tariffs scheme (FITs), you may be eligible to earn money from your energy supplier. You’ll be paid for the...
Winter Fuel Allowance

Winter Fuel Allowance

You could receive between £100 and £300 tax-free to help you pay your heating bills if you were born on or before 5 May 1953. This is known as a ‘Winter Fuel Payment’. You usually get a Winter Fuel Payment automatically if you get the State Pension or another social...
Warm Home Discount Scheme

Warm Home Discount Scheme

The Warm Home Discount scheme is an initiative in the UK involving the government and electricity suppliers working together to help offer extra support to approximately two million of the UK’s most vulnerable customers, by providing rebates on electricity bills in...
Energy Companies Obligation (ECO)

Energy Companies Obligation (ECO)

Introduced in January 2013, the Energy Companies Obligation (ECO) is a government passed order aimed at reducing the UK’s energy consumption and tackling fuel poverty. Helping to support people living in fuel poverty, the ECO requires the big six energy companies to...
Cold Weather Payment Scheme

Cold Weather Payment Scheme

A government grant given to qualifying households during cold weather, this grant is only payable when the temperature falls below, or is forecast to fall below, 0°C for seven consecutive days. The Cold Weather Payment scheme runs from 1 November 2016 to 31 March...