HIPs Portsmouth, EPC Portsmouth – Ozone Energy Assessors and Consultants

An EPC is an Energy Performance Certificate. The EPC produces a consumer friendly rating similar to the rating used for white goods. The EPC has been introduced as a result of a European environmental policy initiative to formulate further policies to reduce carbon emissions from buildings, and to slow down global warming.

The aim is to provide a figure similar to the miles per gallon figure used to indicate the energy performance of a car. This can be used as a guide to make energy saving improvements to the home and to give any prospective buyer a direct energy comparison between properties. This information is also used to work out the carbon emissions created when using the home.

Energy saving improvements reduce fuel bills, by reducing energy consumption greenhouse gases are also reduced.

The certificate also gives assumed running costs for the home per annum for heating, hot water and lighting, and also indicates energy saving measures and their annual saving.

The assessment will generally take an hour. (This does depend on the size of the property). The Energy Performance Certificate provides two ratings. The Energy Efficiency Ratio (EER) relates to the property’s running costs and measures the overall efficiency of a home. The higher the rating the more energy efficient the home is and the lower the fuel bills will be.

Within the EPC report there is also a recommendation section, which will list the current and potential rating of your home. If the list of improvements were carried out then the rating would change from potential to actual. The list of recommendations are not compulsory. However, there are grants available for anyone wishing to carry out certain improvements. The information in the report can be used to:

• Cut your fuel bills
• Improve energy performance
• Help cut carbon emissions