The RHI renewable heat incentive scheme in the North rumbles on as a debacle in the committee rooms at Stormont. The scheme now has its own nickname, cash for ash.
The scheme encouraged the installation of costly eco-friendly heating systems by paying a tariff per kilowatt of heat burned over a 20 year period. According to one whistleblower source, a farmer is allegedly in line to receive £1 million over the next 20 years for heating an empty shed, while large factories in the north are also allegedly on course to pocket £1.5 million over two decades for running incentivised biomass boilers all year round in premises that previously were not heated.
Money for old rope is not a new concept, but money for burning that old rope, that’s a new one.
