Home Energy Assessors/Advisors in the UK
The purpose of this website is to give householders a general guidance on the Energy Performance Cerfiticate(EPC) recommendations & what you can do to implement changes that will affect your home energy ratings & encourage energy savings in your home.
The role of the Home Energy Advisor (HEA) (when established by Communities & Local Government) will be to give advice to householders, advice that is in addition to that contained within an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC).
HEAs will visit homes to undertake an EPC energy assessment for individual households.
This will identify recommendations to help reduce costs and lower carbon emissions. The recommendations will go beyond physical measures relating to the building and include changes to occupant behaviour to promote home energy efficiency and reduce fuel bills.
The HEA will be a skilled advisor who can carry out the EPC, act on it's recommendations by encouraging and motivating householders to make both lifestyle changes and improvements to their properties. This will include the following:-
1. Methods of improving the thermal performance of a dwellings fabric by retrofitting insulation; to lofts, rooms in the roof, solid and cavity walls, floors, replacement/secondary double glazing & reducing heat loss through ventilation losses.
2. Methods of improving the energy performance of existing heating, hot water and lighting services within dwellings, including improving existing systems and installing new services and controls (to systems, boilers and heat emitters) where appropriate.
3. Costs of measures and their relative cost effectiveness.
4. Circumstances when specific improvement measures should not be recommended.
5. The logic used by RDSAP in making recommendations for improvement measures.
How do I find a Home Energy Advisor in my area? We will let you have a list of available Advisors when their role is more established.
For a Domestic Energy Assessors in your area call us on 01323 841488.
