EPC Certificate – Enhance Your Building’s Energy Efficiency!

EPC or Energy Performance Certificate has been made compulsory to all landlords. It has been made mandatory since 1st of October 2008 and is a legal requirement to provide all new tenants in England and Wales with this certificate known as Energy Performance Certificate.

It has been made a mandatory document along with an HIP. It offers a carbon footprint of households. Such certificates are not valid for any building that is not self contained. This means that if a tenant shares his rented house with another person and has given his room on rent and shares all the facilities at a buy to let property, then the building need not have this certificate. These certificates are valid only till 10 years and not beyond that. This is provided to a landlord by an Accredited Energy Assessor.

An accredited energy assessor will provide a certificate detailing out the carbon-di-oxide emissions of a particular building. An assessor will offer grades from ‘A to G’, where ‘Grade A’ stands for highest efficiency and ‘grade G’ for lowest efficiency, ‘Grade D’ can be considered an average score.

It gives the building a standard energy and carbon emission efficiency grade from ‘A’ to ‘G’, where ‘A’ is the most efficient. The average efficiency grade to date is 'D'.

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