Energy Performance Certificates

(asked on 1st June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make it his policy to replace the fuel cost per square metre criteria in the banding methodology for the Energy Performance Certificate with a critieria based on energy efficiency per square metre.


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Kwasi Kwarteng
This question was answered on 9th June 2020

Energy Performance Certificates display both an Energy Efficiency Rating (EER), an indicator of the assumed energy cost per square metre of a home, and the Environmental Impact Rating (EIR), an indicator of the carbon dioxide emissions intensity per square metre of a home.

The Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP) and Reduced Data SAP (RDSAP) methodologies which underpin Energy Performance Certificates for homes, and the SBEM methodology for non-domestic premises, are updated regularly in line with updates to Part L of the Building Regulations.

We will keep it under review as we develop policies and plans for decarbonising buildings and reducing fuel poverty.

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