Energy Performance Certificate
The Energy Performance Certificate or EPC is the efficiency appraisement of a property, or a building. The appraisement is represented graphically on a calibration from A to G, an A stands for the highest achievement, the most efficient property and G is the lowest score and stands for the least efficient performance of a property. This allows side-by-side energy efficiency comparison of buildings the EPC depicts the ecology damage of a property in the form of its Carbon Dioxide emissions.
Energy Performance Certificate, why is it so vital?
EPC’s are a absolute result of the European Union Directive 2002/91/EC, created by the Kyoto Protocol that aimed at a reduction of acid rain and on the burning of fossil fuels and ecological abasement due to Carbon Dioxide emissions. Incorporated in Part 5 of the UK Housing Act which was passed in 2004 this charge require all houses and property in UK to have EPCs by 2009.
About 40% of UK