Although we have been blessed with the suspension of the HIPs, we still needed to get an EPC for our house sale.
What a load of rubbish it is!
Among the three "improvement recommendations" is:
"Photovoltaic panels".
We have a NE aspect roof and get direct sunlight around 30% of the day. In summer. In winter we get none! Idiot!
And for some reason the assessor's calculation tells us that our house has "potential" to cost £15 per year more in heating! Superb recommendation there!
Rather than enforce this expensive and silly bit of pan-EU legislation there should be a £20 one-off exemption certification scheme for houses over 80 years old. There's no chance this house is ever going to have "internal or external insulation" fitted to improve it's rating (victorian cottage in a conservation area). And it's already maxed out on low-energy lightbulbs and TRVs.
Load of bureaucratic twaddle.