If the Government’s Pay As You Save scheme gets through parliament, it could help fund the massive energy efficient home improvements UK homes will need in order to achieve lower CO2 emissions. However, cutting independent EPC assessors out of the process could be a major blunder — particularly if we end up with salespeople in their place…

Commercial EPC compliance is amazingly low, as shown by NHER research — most agents simply don’t realise the buck stops with them. Now, fast-track changes to the EPBD threaten fines worth avoiding and Trading Standards scrutiny you’d be better off without. At least there’s more than twenty seconds to comply…

The Energy Saving Trust kicks off 2010 by rolling out the Boiler Scrappage Scheme announced in the pre-budget report. It aims to improve Britain’s energy efficiency, to save people’s energy bills, and boost the gas fitting and boiler manufacturing industries. Three birds—one stone.

The scheme is not perfect, though: it missed a chance to make better use of EPC assessors, and it could even be open to a touch of abuse. All in all, is the Boiler Scrappage Scheme brilliant or flawed?

How’s this for an unexpected Christmas present: lower heating bills for life? That’s what residents of Rawnsley House in Bristol are getting. The entire block of flats is being clad with heat-saving solid wall insulation – and it’s arriving just in time for the coldest months of the year. Our EPC show how valuable this [...]

Hello and welcome to my industry blog. Yes, my name is Peter Kay and no, I don’t know the way to Amarillo – but I do know a thing or two about energy performance certificates and home information packs and I will be blogging about all sorts of things related to my industry. I and [...]