{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-domestic-renewable-heat-incentive-scheme-regulations-2014/regulation-16",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2014/9780111111192",
  "legislation_title": "The Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-domestic-renewable-heat-incentive-scheme-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Positioning of meters when recording heat generated by heat pumps",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of regulation 14(2)(b), where the plant (“plant A”) is a heat pump, meters must be positioned in accordance with paragraph (2), (3), (4), or (5).\n(2) Meters are positioned in accordance with this paragraph if one or more eligible meters are installed to record separately—\n(a) the heat output from any component of plant A which is a compressor, and any other components of plant A which the owner of plant A will be seeking to be included in the calculation of eligible metered heat (“the metered components”); and\n(b) any relevant energy consumption by the components of plant A that are metered under this paragraph.\n(3) Meters are positioned in accordance with this paragraph if one or more eligible meters are installed to record separately—\n(a) the combined heat output of the metered components and any other plant (“plant B”);\n(b) the heat output of plant B; and\n(c) any relevant energy consumption by the metered components.\n(4) Meters are positioned in accordance with this paragraph if one or more eligible meters are installed to record separately—\n(a) the combined heat output of the metered components and plant B;\n(b) any energy consumption by plant B; and\n(c) any relevant energy consumption by the metered components.\n(5) Meters are positioned in accordance with this paragraph if plant A is capable of providing heating as well as cooling and one or more eligible meters are installed to record sufficient information about plant A to enable the eligible metered heat generated by plant A to be determined.\n(6) In this regulation, “relevant energy consumption” means consumption of energy which is not energy from—\n(a) a liquid filled flat plate or evacuated tube solar collector; or\n(b) a source other than heat from the air, water or the ground.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2014/9780111111192/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:13:33.225689+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}