The development of renewable heating policy in the United Kingdom

Connor, Peter; Xie, Lei; Lowes, Richard; Britton, Jess; Richardson, T.

doi:10.1016/j.renene.2014.10.056

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“…It is important to draw a distinction between electricity and heat prosumption. Electricity is more versatile, partly because it can be sold back to the grid, and has been the focus of government's incentives schemes (Connor et al, 2015). However, heating is the single biggest use of energy in the UK and cannot be overlooked in strategies to meet legally binding renewable and carbon emission targets (Chaudry et al, 2015).…”

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“…The UK's domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (hereafter RHI) is novel in a global context because it is the first scheme to subsidise heat microgeneration, operating like a FiTs and replacing grant schemes -the common funding mechanism for renewable heat (Connor et al, 2015). While originally introduced into UK legislation in the 2008 Energy Act, the RHI did not start until April 2014, resulting in confusion and uncertainty for both industry and householders (Ibid, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Conceptualising energy prosumption: Exploring energy production, consumption and microgeneration in Scotland, UK

Ellsworth-Krebs

Reid

2016

Environ Plan A

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Energy prosumption has become a common phrase as more householders and communities are producing and consuming their own electricity and heat. Prosumption is a combination of two words: production and consumption, and emerged as a concept at a time when consumers were beginning to be more proactive and take over steps traditionally thought of as ‘production’. In many ways, energy prosumption is nothing new (e.g. wood combustion), yet development of our modern energy system has changed the relationships between energy producers and consumers (e.g. smart meters, renewable energy production). Thus, there is a growing body of research interested in the motivation and conditions for the uptake of microgeneration technologies and the implications to energy infrastructures and big energy producers. However, this ‘energy prosumption’ scholarship generally lacks a strong conceptual foundation and misses the opportunity to build on existing prosumption literature and related debates. This paper brings the wealth of literature on prosumption into the energy context and reflects on the insights offered by a prosumption lens. Our study explores a particular manifestation of prosumption – when a household is simultaneously a producer and consumer of their heat and/or electricity via microgeneration – and we present data from semi-structured interviews with 28 households living with microgeneration technologies in Scotland, UK. Thus, we provide a robust framework from which future research on household and community energy prosumption can build.

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Conceptualising energy prosumption: Exploring energy production, consumption and microgeneration in Scotland, UK

Ellsworth-Krebs

Reid

2016

Environ Plan A

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“…They also provided revenue adequate pricing schemes for the three obligation policies. Connor et al (2015) discussed the adoption and development of renewable heating policy in the UK focusing on the historical and ongoing policies applied to the support of renewable energy sources of heat in the UK. Devine et al (2017) presented a simulationbased modelling framework to incorporate consideration of policymaker/consumer risk burden in FiT analyses.…”

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Incentivising bioenergy production: Economic and environmental insights from a regional optimization methodology

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In conjunction with the European Union (EU) targets, the United Kingdom (UK) Government has introduced a range of mechanisms to foster the development and deployment of low carbon energy technologies and markets. This study focuses on the three main financial incentive schemes to promote renewable energy sector in the UK for electricity, heat and fuel production from renewables, namely feed-in tariff (FiT), Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) and Renewables Obligation Certificate (RoC), considering the fact that optimal policy design depends on effective analyses of the impacts of incentives on the performance of renewable energy systems. The effects of potential changes in these incentive schemes on the economic and environmental performance of bioenergy sector are investigated using an analytical methodology. The methodology integrates fuzzy decision making and multi objective mathematical modelling in the same framework to capture uncertainties in the system parameters as well as economic and environmental sustainability aspects. Computational experiments are performed on bioenergy production using the entire West Midlands Region in the UK as case study region. The results reveal that the changes in incentive policies have a significant impact on the profitability of the supply chain, whereas environmental performance of the supply chain in terms of total GHG emissions is the least affected performance indicator by the changes in the incentive policies.

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“…For example, there are several reports related to power generation using various renewable sources such as green prices for renewables, photovoltaic, and biomass [3][4][5][6][7][8][9] and renewable energy supply mandates [10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. Moreover, some studies have focused on analyzing the feasibility of RH [14] and devising policy means [15][16][17] or business models [18]. However, only two studies investigated preference for RH [19,20].…”

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Will South Korean Residential Consumers Accept the Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme? A Stated Preference Approach

Lim

Yoo

2019

Energies

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In South Korea, renewable energy policy is mainly focused on electricity and tends to neglect renewable heat (RH). However, for the purpose of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the heating sector must sharply switch from its use of conventional fuels to renewable sources. The South Korean Government is considering an RH incentive (RHI) program with financial and policy support schemes and is thus demanding information about residential consumers’ acceptance of the RHI program to expand the use of RH. Therefore, this study looked into residential consumers’ acceptance of the introduction of the RHI program by applying contingent valuation (CV). For this purpose, a CV survey of 600 interviewees was conducted using a dichotomous choice question format that asked a respondent if she/he is willing to pay a given amount. Furthermore, among the various dichotomous choice question formats, the one-and-one-half-bounded format, which is considered desirable in terms of efficiency as well as consistency, was applied. One point to note in analyzing the CV responses was that not a few interviewees had zero willingness to pay (WTP). Thus, a spike model was employed to deal with the dichotomous choice CV data with a number of zero observations. The results revealed that the household mean WTP amounted to KRW 5753 (USD 5.35) per year. If we look at this value from a national perspective, it is worth KRW 113.63 billion (USD 105.61 million) per year. This value corresponds to the economic value or benefits that the introduction of an RHI program provides to the South Korean people each year and needs to be compared to the costs that the introduction of RHI will incur.

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The development of renewable heating policy in the United Kingdom

Cited by 39 publications

References 16 publications

Conceptualising energy prosumption: Exploring energy production, consumption and microgeneration in Scotland, UK

Conceptualising energy prosumption: Exploring energy production, consumption and microgeneration in Scotland, UK

Incentivising bioenergy production: Economic and environmental insights from a regional optimization methodology

Will South Korean Residential Consumers Accept the Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme? A Stated Preference Approach

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