RHI Audit
- Thread starter RhysT
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yes we have had five audits on various customer installations, if you get someone who knows his job he will be looking at everything based on what was uploaded to the rhi. he will be taking heat meter readings and comparing them with invoices of chips/ pellets bought. etc. the meter stores data for six years on a monthly basis. some of them don't know one end of a piece of pipe from the other. basically he is supposed to look at everything.
Doing it for the kids
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Watching with interest
How far back do they look at records? Only burn straw so no invoices to tally up with but I wasn't so good at keeping records at the start
How far back do they look at records? Only burn straw so no invoices to tally up with but I wasn't so good at keeping records at the start
if you are your own fuel supplier you have to register your self as such and you have to keep a record, they can take money off you if required. if you buy your fuel you must have receipts that tally up with the kwh that is on the meter. (it is not an exact calc but it has to be in the ball park) you cannot have loads of mw on the meter and no proof of fuel bought, the heat meters are easy to doctor the readings so you must have proof of fuel used/bought etc. they are paying out lots of money and so they require an audit trail. even down to using the correct type of outside pipe, normal pipe with insulation used outside is no use unless you have a meter at each end. if you have the correct underground pipe for external use you do not need heat meters at each end, they calc the watts per meter of pipe and take it off the reading, far better this way you are usually far better off having your system changed to a heat loss calc system. also you are allowed to have the boiler buffer heat meter on the boiler side of the mixer, it used to be a requirement to have it on the buffer side of the mixer so the heat used warming up was not paid for.
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Same but the first year or so was a bit sketchy, just trying to work out how worried I should be!?
tullah
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- Linconshire
It's the only bit of paperwork I enjoy completing.
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Those who self supply don't have invoices!
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not sure on that one, it is a separate company that does the audits and as far as I know installations are picked at random unless they have a reason to visit. out of 200 installations we have had five audits. some of the auditors are very good but we have had ones that were very new to the job and had no idea what to look for.
chippingNewbie
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Our installation was audited due to delays in commissioning the system initially. Ended up having to resubmit application.
How many of the f0sters audits where to do with initial application and how many ongoing auditing?
How many of the f0sters audits where to do with initial application and how many ongoing auditing?
always nice to have a "easy" improvement, and as its not a requirement, you dont need to bother