Northern Ireland

Renewable Heat Incentive: The biggest claimants revealed

One of the main uses for RHI appears to be heating barns full of chickens - in fact, this may well turn out to be the single costliest application of the scheme
One of the main uses for RHI appears to be heating barns full of chickens - in fact, this may well turn out to be the single costliest application of the scheme One of the main uses for RHI appears to be heating barns full of chickens - in fact, this may well turn out to be the single costliest application of the scheme

Renewable Heat Incentive: The biggest claimants

revealed

£27 million paid out already to 400 companies and organisations with top claimant receiving £659,000

Renewable Heat Incentive: An Irish News Special Report

RHI: The full listOpens in new window ]


The names of around 400 companies and organisations ordered by the amounts they received



RHI list - who claimed whatOpens in new window ]


Find out if your local church, golf club, hotel or poultry farm is on the RHI claimant list



£300k payout for shed running boilers with door openOpens in new window ]


Firm was paid £305,629.59 for six biomass boilers between October 26 2015 and February 28 this year



Co Tyrone firm claimed £659,540 for 13 boilersOpens in new window ]


Paul Hobson Ltd is one of the largest producers for Moy Park - the biggest poultry-production business in the north



Renewable Heat Incentive: An Irish News Special Report


Chicken and turkey farms are prominentOpens in new window ]


Some have already been paid in excess of £500,000 since the botched scheme was launched



Only half of all claimants namedOpens in new window ]


Only firms that have received more than £5,000 have been listed by the Department for the Economy



MLA questions timing of list releaseOpens in new window ]


"It should have been done in December, along with Arlene Foster stepping down"



RHI payments: the backgroundOpens in new window ]


The botched non-domestic scheme is set to cost the public purse £490 million over the next 20 years