Energy Performance of Buildings (Scotland) Regulations 2025 - EPC reform consultations: SG response - update

Footnotes

1 Energy Performance Certificate reform consultation: response - gov.scot

2 Domestic Energy Performance Certificates (EPC) reform: consultation - gov.scot

3 Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) reform: consultation - gov.scot

4 Energy Performance Certificate reform – lodgement fees and penalty charges: technical consultation - gov.scot

5 Executive Summary - Heat and Energy Efficiency Technical Suitability Assessment (HEETSA): scoping consultation - gov.scot

6 Draft Energy Efficiency (Domestic Private Rented Property) (Scotland) Regulations: consultation - gov.scot

7 Supporting documents - Energy Performance Certificate reform – lodgement fees and penalty charges: technical consultation - gov.scot

8 Supporting documents - Energy Performance Certificate reform – lodgement fees and penalty charges: technical consultation - gov.scot

9 Scottish Energy Performance Certificate Register Lodgement Fees and Penalty Charges - Scottish Government consultations - Citizen Space

10 Approved Organisations – Energy Performance Certificates - Framework

11 Energy Performance Certificate reform consultation: response - gov.scot

12 BRE Client Report - Development work relating to a potential new metric for Scottish Energy Performance Certificates

13 The UK Government’s Home Energy Model Consultation sets out, as an example of the additional complexity of the Home Energy Model, that it “is the result of a significant development process which has sought to align with modern international energy modelling standards and the best available technical evidence. The new model simulates energy performance for each half-hour of the day (as compared to each month for SAP), enabling a better representation of smart technologies and systems”.

14 Energy Performance of Buildings (Scotland) Regulations 2025: stock model research - gov.scot

15 Unfortunately, due to Covid-19 restrictions it was not possible to resume the 2020 SHCS and the 2021 SHCS was undertaken using an external+ approach. However, due to the change in approach for the 2021 SHCS, the results are not directly comparable with the National Statistics from previous waves of the survey. Therefore 2019, 2022 and 2023 data was used for this analysis.