{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renewable-heat-incentive-scheme-regulations-2018/regulation-47",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2018/611",
  "legislation_title": "The Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renewable-heat-incentive-scheme-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/47",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Part—\n“fuel quality criteria” means the criteria for woodfuel quality specified in Schedule 4A in relation to solid biomass which is wood;\n“greenhouse gas criteria” means the criteria set out in Schedule 3;\n“land criteria”, except in regulation 48(3)(a), means—\n(a)the criteria set out in Part 2 of Schedule 4 in relation to solid biomass which is wood or wholly derived from wood, except energy crops; or\n(b)the criteria set out in Part 3 of Schedule 4 in relation to other solid biomass including energy crops;\n“permitted location” means a place—\n(a)in respect of which the participant has a right to harvest the solid biomass; and\n(b)which is no more than 50 miles from the plant in which the solid biomass is used;\n“self-supplied” means—\n(a)obtained by or on behalf of the participant from a permitted location; or\n(b)waste wood which is obtained by or on behalf of the participant from the place where it first becomes waste;\n“sustainable biogas” means—\n(a)biogas which—\n(i)meets the greenhouse gas criteria; and\n(ii)is made wholly from feedstock which is solid biomass which meets the land criteria;\n(b)biogas which is made wholly from feedstock which is waste;\n(c)biogas which consists of a combination of any of the biogas listed in paragraphs (a) and (b);\n“sustainable biomethane” means biomethane which, save for ingredients which are added as part of the biomethane production process—\n(a)is made wholly from feedstock which is waste;\n(b)meets the greenhouse gas criteria and is made wholly from feedstock which is solid biomass which meets the land criteria; or\n(c)consists of a combination of any of the biomethane listed in paragraphs (a) and (b);\n“sustainable solid biomass” means—\n(a)solid biomass which meets the greenhouse gas criteria , the land criteria and the fuel quality criteria;\n(b)solid biomass which is—\n(i)self-supplied;\n(ii)used in an accredited RHI installation with an installation capacity of less than 1MWth; and\n(iii)either—\n(aa)an approved sustainable fuel; or\n(bb)a fuel in respect of which the Secretary of State has made a declaration under regulation 51(5);\n(c)solid biomass which is waste, or is wholly derived from waste;\n(d)solid biomass which consists of a combination of any of the solid biomass listed in paragraphs (a) to (c).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 47 inserted (1.4.2022) by The Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme and Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/76), regs. 1(3)(a), 19(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 47 substituted (1.4.2022) by The Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme and Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/76), regs. 1(3)(a), 19(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/611/regulation/47",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:57:48.394569+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."
}