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<p>The Government fully recognises that Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) and oil, like other
fossil fuels, will continue to play a part in the UK's energy mix, while the way we
heat our homes changes. DECC has introduced the domestic renewable heat incentive
(RHI) scheme to support renewable heating systems. The domestic RHI is targeted predominately
at off gas-grid households, by compensating for the additional costs faced when replacing
an oil boiler with a renewable heating system. New incentives for oil and LPG boilers
would undermine the balance struck in the design of the RHI, and potentially cause
confusion for consumers.</p><p>The Energy Company Obligation (ECO) will continue to
support oil and LPG condensing boilers for low income and vulnerable households. By
February this year around 320,000 households were helped under ECO. We are making
changes to ECO to provide a greater incentive for targeting measures at off-gas grid
households.</p><p> </p>
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