EPC

It follows the announcement of a new standard to further improve the energy efficiency of homes in the social housing sector

The government has launched a £5m fund for the financial sector to develop green mortgages and a £10m innovation fund to cut the costs of retrofitting the UK’s housing stock

BEIS is also inviting suggestions to improve the reliability and accuracy of Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs)

Think tank IPPR is calling for a ‘fundamental reform’ of the Energy Company Obligation scheme

The Better Buildings Partnership says their design, materials and construction means they often have poorer EPC ratings

Landlords of privately rented properties must achieve higher energy efficiency ratings by 2025

With just over two weeks to go until the Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) are introduced in England and Wales…are you ready for the implications? This new legislation coming into force on 1st April 2018, will make it unlawful for a landlord to let or renew a lease on a property if the energy performance certificate […]

It says around a fifth of privately rented households in the UK struggling to pay their bills

  The Natural History Museum has renewed a 10-year Energy Performance Contract (EPC) with Veolia after it saved hundreds of thousands of pounds on its energy bills. Around 1,500 tonnes of carbon emissions have also been offset annually since its partnership with the waste management firm’s specialist subsidiary Veolia-Cynergin in 2004. The company helped the […]

Homebuyers could get bigger mortgages if the energy efficiency of properties were part of the lending criteria of banks and building societies. That’s according to new government-funded research, which found while 90% of mortgage lenders use cost data from the Office of National Statistics, which include fuel bill data, no known affordability calculation takes direct […]