Publication - Research and analysis
Scottish Energy Performance Certificates - new metrics: research
Research report summarising work to develop new EPC metrics for Scottish EPCs. This report accompanies the Energy Performance Certificate reform consultation.
Description of the project
The following topics were investigated as part of this project:
- Propose and discuss the pros and cons of potential metrics.
- Model the Scottish housing stock in SAP 10.2 to show the distribution of potential new metrics, relative to the existing metric.
- Determine the value of SG’s favoured new metrics that is equivalent in terms of ambition to the current band C threshold level.
- Model the impact on the distribution of proposed and existing metrics of energy efficiency improvement measures and discuss any implications this has for the choice of A to G band thresholds.
Work undertaken on each of these topics is described in the following sections of this report.
Contact
Email: EPCenquiries@gov.scot
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