RHI fuel types replaced by geothermal heat pump 2014-2019

Geothermal heat pumps, also known as ground source heat pumps, is a central system which transfers heat from or to the ground and can be used for heating and/or cooling. Since the RHI domestic program was formally launched in April 2014, oil was the most common fuel to be replaced by geothermal heat pumps, accounting with 27 percent of the fuel types displaced by this renewable technology.

Great Britain has begun a transformation to a low carbon heat system, launching the non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) in 2011 and further implementing RHI in the domestic sector in 2014. A large proportion of RHI applications and accreditations are located in Scotland. Under the RHI, fossil fuels have been replaced by air source heat pumps, ground source heat pumps, biomass and solar thermal systems.

Number of fuel types replaced with ground source heat pumps under the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) in Great Britain between 2014 and 2019*

Characteristic	Number of systems replaced
Oil	2,912
Electricity	1,686
Gas	498
LPG	390
Coal	262
Biomass	36
Other/NA**	4,905

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Release date

January 2020

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Region

United Kingdom (Great Britain)

Survey time period

April 2014 to December 2019*

Supplementary notes

* Data covers the period from April 2014 to December 2019. The non-domestic RHI has been in operation since November 2011, and the domestic RHI was launched in April 2014.

** Other/NA refers to any application replacing a fuel type other than the six fuels listed, and installations in new properties in which no previous system exists.
This statistic is using original data from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and includes copyright material from © Crown, licensed under the Open Government License v3.0

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