2010 Spending Review

The Spending Review confirmed that the RHI will go ahead and allocated government funding to it.
... but we still don't know what it will look like!

Spending Review 2010

The only details published within the Spending Review on the RHI are as follows:

£860 million funding for the Renewable Heat Incentive which will be introduced from 2011-12. This will drive a more-than-tenfold increase of renewable heat over the coming decade, shifting renewable heat from a fringe industry firmly into the mainstream. The Government will not be taking forward the previous administration’s plans of funding this scheme through an overly complex Renewable Heat levy.

We later learnt that the RHI will go live on June 1st 2011, two months later than originally planned.

Later announcements

The government had promised to publish their proposals for the final design of the RHI in December.

At that time DECC said it has finished the draft, but it wassubject to review by other government departments, including Defra and the Treasury; it should be available by February.

When he published his written statement on the Feed-In Tariffs on 7th February, the Secretary of State, Chris Huhne also said:

We also hope to publish next month measures to support renewable heat within the budget agreed at Spending Review.