Is the EPC the best way to test your home’s energy efficiency? – The Times

Most of us ignore the Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) until we move house, when organising an assessor to come round with a clipboard and climb into the loft is yet another thing to tick off the list. And pay for.

This is changing. The government wants to use EPCs as a guide to what improvements can be made to cut down on domestic energy use. Climate change is turning up the heat on homeowners and landlords whose management of their bricks and mortar is the key to Britain meeting any net zero targets.

EPCs were introduced in 2007 to record a home’s energy efficiency rating from A to G — with E the lowest legally acceptable standard for tenants, at least — and. EPC

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