A scheme in Northern Ireland (colloquially known as "Cash for Ash") was set up where heating properties using renewable fuels (mainly biomass) was subsidised, o

A scheme in Northern Ireland (colloquially known as "Cash for Ash") was set up where heating properties using renewable fuels (mainly biomass) was subsidised, only the subsidy was priced higher than the cost for fuel causing people to heat empty properties just to claim the subsidy. The whole thing cost almost half a billion pounds. There have been huge allegations of fraud and it even brought down NI's power-sharing executive (~ the regional government) in 2017. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_Heat_Incentive_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_Heat_Incentive_scand...