Delivering a Sustainable Future

Energy Performance Certification

All new build dwellings require an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC). Richard Hodkinson Consultancy delivers a highly efficient service to ensure you have your Predicted Energy Assessments (PEAs) before beginning work on site – a new requirement under 2010 Building Regulations - and EPCs upon completion of dwellings.

PEAs and EPCs will be produced in conjunction with the energy advice and strategy provided by RHC throughout the design process, to ensure all planning and building regulations requirements are continually met through the detailed design and construction of your development.

About the EPC

The front page of the EPC shows the energy efficiency rating and the environmental impact rating in two separate graphs:

The Energy Efficiency Rating shows the current rating and the potential rating that the property could achieve if recommendations were implemented by the homeowner. The graph starts at 1 and extends to 100 and represents the cost to the occupant of heating, lighting and hot water for the property, based on regularly updated energy cost indexes.

It is possible for a property to score above 100; this is rare but by no means impossible, and would normally involve exporting energy gained from a renewable energy system. It means that the cost of the energy consumption of the property is more than met by the ‘income’ obtained from exporting surplus energy.