Non-Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI)

If you choose to relocate your NDRHI accredited installation, we must be made aware of this within 28 days of decommissioning, per your ongoing obligations. Please see our guidance Volume 2: Ongoing obligations and payments for further information on your ongoing obligations.

A Notice of Final Meter Reading (NOFMR)form must be completed and submitted to us via email at RHI.Relocations@ofgem.gov.uk. This form records the final meter reading prior to decommissioning, therefore, the final amount payable to you at the installation’s original location. Once the installation has been decommissioned and removed from its original location, payment is no longer due until the installation is recommissioned and re-accredited.

Once the plant has been re-commissioned at its new location, a new application for accreditation must be made via the NDRHI Register online. We will then determine if the installation will be re-accredited at it’s new location. If approved, the tariff rates and term will continue per the original accreditation, e.g. You were accredited on the NDRHI scheme in June 2018 and disconnected your biomass boiler in June 2022 prior to relocation. The boiler was recommissioned at its new location in August 2022, therefore, the tariff term remaining (once re-accredited) will be 15 years and 10 months. Your tariff term is not paused whilst an installation is decommissioned, regardless of the circumstances of the decommissioning.

If there have been significant changes to an installation or its usage during the relocation, your accreditation could be revoked as it no longer aligns with what was originally accredited. The installation cannot then be used for any further NDRHI applications.

If you wish to sell your Non-Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive accredited installation as an ongoing asset on the NDRHI scheme, you are able to do so by filling in a Change of Ownership (CoO) form on the NDRHI Register. This will allow the new owner to receive the payments due for the rest of the tariff term. A single A single eligible technology (a biomass boiler, GSHP, ASHP, etc.) cannot be accredited on the NDRHI scheme for longer than 20 years, regardless of ownership.

E.g. If you were accredited on the NDRHI scheme in June 2018 and sold your biomass boiler to a new owner in June 2022 then you have received 4 years of the tariff term, therefore, the new owner (once re-accredited) will be able to claim the payments due for the remaining 16 years of the tariff term.

Please see our Change of Ownership page for more details on this process.

If you need to replace your NDRHI accredited installation due to irreparable damage, we must be made aware of this within 28 days of decommissioning of the original installation, per your ongoing obligations. Please see our guidance Volume 2: Ongoing obligations and payments for further information on your ongoing obligations.

A Notice of Final Meter Reading (NOFMR) form must be completed and submitted to us via email at RHI.Relocations@ofgem.gov.uk. This form records the final meter reading prior to decommissioning, therefore, the final amount payable to you against the original installation. Once the installation has been decommissioned and removed from its original location, payment is no longer due until the new installation is commissioned and re-accredited.

Once the new installation has been commissioned in the original location, a new application for accreditation must be made via the NDRHI Register online. We will then determine if the new installation will be re-accredited. If approved, the tariff rates and term will continue per the original accreditation, e.g. You were accredited on the NDRHI scheme in June 2018 and disconnected your biomass boiler in June 2022 prior to replacement. The new boiler was commissioned in August 2022, therefore, the tariff term remaining (once re-accredited) will be 15 years and 10 months. Your tariff term is not paused whilst an installation is decommissioned, regardless of the circumstances of the decommissioning.

If there have been significant changes to an installation or its usage during the replacement, your accreditation could be revoked as it no longer aligns with what was originally accredited. The installation cannot then be used for any further NDRHI applications.