What about Energy Efficiency in Home Information Packs ?
How is the Energy Performance Certificate Compiled?
The process is as follows: The Energy Assessor is commissioned by the vendor to visit the property, which is up for sale. The relevant energy information, which may include consideration of the actual location of the house, heating systems, the installation of double glazing or specialised insulation, is then gathered by the assessor and the Certificate is formulated according to the assessor’s opinion as to the energy rating achieved.
Not only will the certificate indicate the asset rating calculated by the actual performance of the residence including the effectiveness of existing service utilities, such as gas, electricity, lighting and heating, but it will also forecast the rating achievable should action be taken to upgrade the property by the implementation of the assessor’s recommended cost and energy savings.
As no two buildings are exactly the same, working from a standard template, the assessor will also take into account all the various factors of area location, the actual extent of the property and the state of the building itself. Any recommendations must therefore not be general, but applied strictly to the particular building being assessed.
Apart from suggested measures to reduce energy costs and improve the efficiency of existing energy usage, the certificate will include information regarding the Energy Savings Trust, an organisation charged with providing details for grant eligibility and qualification requirements for the receipt of home improvement discounts or any other approaches which may be useful in regard to making energy improvements in the home. Advice regarding more simplistic methods of reducing costs and energy, without the need of any costly refurbishment of the home, is also available from this organisation. In What Way are Energy Performance Certificates Utilised?
As soon as the assessment of the building or residence has been made by the accredited Energy Assessor, the information from the completed certificate is transferred to a centralised data holding facility and the Certificate is referenced by a specific and unique number. The system ensures that access is restricted, so that only holders of this number are able to access the stored information.
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