{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-renewable-heat-incentive-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/regulation-38",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-renewable-heat-incentive-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/regulation-38.json",
  "legislation": "nidsr/2012/9780337989193",
  "legislation_title": "The Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-renewable-heat-incentive-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2012",
  "path": "regulation/38",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "38",
  "heading": "Periodic support payments accredited RHI installations for complex systems",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to participants who own an accredited RHI installation (“the installation”) which does not fall within regulation 37.\n(2) Subject to regulations 39 and 40, participants shall be paid a periodic support payment for the installation in respect of each quarterly period calculated in accordance with one of the following formulae, as applicable—\n(a) A×B×D/E ; or\n(b) where the accredited RHI installation is generating heat from the combustion of biogas, A×(B−C)×D/E ,\nwhere—\nA is the tariff for the installation determined in accordance with regulation 36;\nB is the heat in kWhth used by the heating system of which the installation forms part during the relevant quarterly period for eligible purposes;\nC is the heat in kWhth directed from the installation or delivered from any other source to the biogas production plant which produced the biogas combusted in the relevant quarterly period (other than heat contained in feedstock to produce biogas by anaerobic digestion) or, where there is not such heat, zero;\nD is the heat in kWhth generated by the installation during the relevant quarterly period; and\nE is the heat in kWhth generated by all plants supplying heat to the same heating system of which the installation forms part in the relevant quarterly period.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nidsr/2012/9780337989193/regulation/38",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:41:13.584773+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."
}