A candid blog on the world of Energy Performance Certificates
Northgate Responds to CERT Consultation
Northgate has published its response to the CERT consultation and calls for Home Energy Advisers to deliver and install Real Time Displays (RTDs), CFLs, and to provide advice on benefit entitlements.
Tags: northgate, cert, home-energy-adviser
Quit Advertising Home and Community Energy Advisor Courses
Training providers are told to stop advertising courses for Home and Community Energy Advisor qualifications until they actually exists, at least, warns the CLG
Tags: cert, cesp, community-energy-advisor, home-energy-advisor
Hartlepool Mayor Jim Gillespie
Jim Gillespie is running for Mayor of Hartlepool on June 4th 2009. So who will run the Institute of Domestic Energy Assessors (IDEA)?
The Media Assault Begins - April 6th HIP Changes
Yesterday BBC's Working Lunch landed a punch on Trevor Kent. Today, Channel 4 News commissions a completely biased survey.
Tags: ahipp, home-information-pack
Confirmed: Domestic Energy Assessor Sued
NHER have been in touch to confirm that both a DEA and surveyor had successful claims made against them for mis-describing windows in their reports.
Tags: nher, domestic-energy-assessor, energy-performance-certificate, legal
Domestic Energy Assessor Sued, Allegedly
Apparently a Domestic Energy Assessor has been sued for marking-down a single-glazed window as double-glazed.
Tags: domestic-energy-assessor, energy-performance-certificate, legal
Tom Parker, Quest Associates, Retires for World Tour
Tom Parker of Quest Associates retired as managing director on Monday to fulfill his lifelong dream to tour as drummer for reformed 80s new romantic band.
EPC Not Required in Basic HIP After 6th April
The CLG has written to AHIPP saying an Energy Performance Certificate need not be included within a basic Home Information Pack before marketing commences, after 6th April, if it's not available after 14 days.
Tags: energy-performance-certificate, clg, ahipp
Tories to AHIPP: We ‘will scrap bureaucratic HIPs’
Tory shadow housing minister, Grant Shapps, is to tell AHIPP this evening that his party will scrap HIPs
Tags: home-information-pack, ahipp
Two Million EPCs
Baroness Andrews told the House of Lords on Monday that 2 million EPCs were now lodged - that's approx 1.6 million Energy Performance Certicates in 12 months.
CR Energy formerly Christopher Rodgers (Home & Energy) Ltd
Christopher Rodgers (Home & Energy) Ltd continues to trade as CR Energy Ltd, bolstered by a £2.25m cash injection
Tags: christopher-rodgers, epc-provider, cr-energy
Christopher Rodgers in Administration
As title really - Christopher Rodgers was placed into administration on 13th February 2009
Tags: christopher-rodgers, epc-provider
DEAs Authorise Boiler Replacements Under New CERT Rules
Only 'independent assessors' and EPCs can identify old G-rated boilers for replacement under new CERT rules announced last week. But Energy Performance Certificates don't publish boiler ratings.
Tags: domestic-energy-assessor, energy-performance-certificate
DIY Landlord EPCs £40
That's right, 'We can produce EPCs for £40 from Landlord's own data. We email you our simple questionaire, you complete it and we produce your EPC. All done electronically. No site visit necessary. Simple, efficient and great value.'
Tags: domestic-energy-assessor, energy-performance-certificate
CESP, The Energy Utils and Home Energy Audits
Here we look at how the Community Energy Saving Programme (CESP) consultation, running alongside the Heat and Energy Saving Strategy, impacts upon Domestic Energy Assessors, Home Energy Advisers and Community Energy Advisers
Tags: domestic-energy-assessor, home-energy-adviser, community-energy-adviser, clg, cesp
Heat and Energy Saving Strategy - Explored
The Government's Heat and Energy Saving Strategy, announced Thursday, directly impacts Domestic Energy Assessors. Here are the main proposals you should be aware of if you're wanting to influence and stay ahead of the crowd.
Tags: clg, decc, heat-and-energy-saving-strategy, community-energy-adviser, housing-energy-adviser, domestic-energy-assessor, energy-performance-certificate
DECC & CLG: Big energy announcement tomorrow
Domestic Energy Assessors may need to upgrade their qualifications to partake in a major initiative expected to be announced tomorrow in a joint statement by the CLG and DECC. Both departments are set to declare a massive program of works to improve the energy efficiency (and reduce carbon emissions) of existing homes, according to The Guardian. But my digging suggests that the two new qualifications currently undergoing refinement - that of Housing Energy Adviser and Community Energy Adviser - may be where it's at for DEAs wishing to find more work.
Tags: domestic-energy-assessor, community-energy-adviser, housing-energy-adviser, dea-training
Community Energy Adviser - CLG seeks your feedback
Asset Skills has today launched a one-off forum to canvass feedback on the NOS for two new qualifications: Community Energy Adviser, and; Housing Energy Adviser. But you better hurry - apparently the consultation closes end Feb!
Tags: community-energy-adviser, housing-energy-adviser, domestic-energy-assessor, dea-training
Retrofitting homes post-1917 to be zero carbon necessary
Casey Cole of Carbon Limited has calculated that homes built since 1917 need to be made zero-carbon if we are to cut carbon emissions by 80% by 2050.
Tags: zero-carbon-homes
Energy Assessor Training Advert
Qualified Domestic Energy Assessors are once again voicing deep concerns over the pressure on fees and aggressive training companies promoting a new career to newbies. I decided to ring one of them up...
Tags: Property-Professionals, dea-training, energy-performance-certificate, commercial-energy-performance-certificate
Assets and Liabilities
If you have a propensity for apocalyptic thoughts, I wouldn't read this if I were you. Nothing directly related to Energy Performance Certificates (though the impact would be felt), so don't worry, you'll miss nothing. Anyway, the UK situ - it's really quite bad.
Tags: debris
Institute of Domestic Energy Assessors Chairman Ignores Vote
It was all a bad dream! Mr Gillespie, chairman of Institute of Domestic Energy Assessors, has now claimed he had already rejected proposals to become a £40 EPC panel, meaning the poll members were asked to participate in (which came out in favour) was never going to count for anything, apparently! Unfortunately, credibility isn't so easy to dismiss.
ECMK: Scottish Protocol to Accredit Energy Assessors Signed
ECMK has formally signed a protocol agreement to accredit energy assessors in Scotland.
NHER: Bad Practice Undermining Accreditation Framework
NHER Accreditation Scheme, in its first annual report since becomming CLG-approved in 2006, reports on its performance up to September 2008. It has a few suggestions for Government too including the tightening-up of data collection and sampling rules and the 'rigorous' monitoring with stricter guidelines for accreditation schemes.
Tags: NHER, annual-reports
IDEA Chairman Forced to Defend £40 EPC Panel Setup
The Institute of Domestic Energy Assessors' chairman divides industry once again as he moves to lock fees at £40 for his members - and, some fear, industry too. As George W Bush slides into the shadows, are you with, or against his protege?
Tags: institute-of-domestic-energy-assessors, energy-performance-certificate
EPC Numbers: Domestic & Non-domestic
By the end of 2008, more than 1.5 million domestic EPCs, and 30,000 non-domestic EPCs, had been registered.
Tags: energy-performance-certificate, non-domestic-energy-performance-certificate, clg
Around 1.2 Million HIPs Issued
Some 1.2 million Home Information Packs have been issued, said CLG minister, Margaret Beckett today as she came under attack from Tory ministers.
Tags: home-information-pack
Tories pledge even 'greater competition' in EPC market
David Cameron has now launched the Tories' Low-carbon economy green policy paper, and - as far as Energy Performance Certificates are concerned - it's quite frankly confused and in some parts, ambiguous. But the dumbest pledge is to introduce yet more competition into the market, with Corgi gas inspectors and utility companies mentioned as examples
Tags: display-energy-certificate, energy-performance-certificate
Tories Outline New Energy Plan
Tory leader, David Cameron, will today unveil policy proposals for increasing energy efficiency in homes which include measures to place homeowners in debt to energy companies to the tune of up to £6,500. But what about EPCs?
£40 EPC 'barely covering costs'
An independent report from the prestigious UK Energy Research Centre confirms what many Domestic Energy Assessors have been saying since the EPC's inception: they're being ignored; they are way too cheap; and the RdSAP methodology is too weak
Tags: energy-performance-certificate, domestic-energy-assessor, RdSAP, SAP
EPC Webchat Initiated by CLG on mumsnet
Charlotte Lawrance of ProDEA today took part in a live webchat on the popular website mumsnet as part of a CLG initiative to raise awareness.
AHIPP Cashflow 'extremely tight'
AHIPP (Association of Home Information Pack Providers) suffered a severe hit to the pocket in October 08, according to minutes of an Executive Members meeting, and may ask members to pay subscription fees for 2010 upfront, this site has learnt - but can members afford it?
Tags: ahipp
Advertise Free on Home Inspector Forum
OMG someone call Ryan an ambulance! If your company has products or services that might benefit the swathe of energy assessor-members of the Home Inspector Forum (nearly 13,000 today), then read on because it's now free to pimp them to elite members. Troof!
Tags: home-inspector-forum
Blind Rage
Another quick video, this time demonstrating how a blind, partially blind or IT-disabled person - all told around 5-odd million people - use the web to find a Domestic Energy Assessor. It's a lot of potential business and the law says your website must not discriminate.
Tags: dea-marketing
Happy New Year - Cuba
That Communist dictator regime in Cuba: what have they got to do with Energy Performance Certificates? Watch the remarkable abridged video - Cuba has lots to teach us.
Stroma Switch to Volume-Based EPC Model
Stroma accreditation is scrapping its annual membership fees from Jan 2009 and is instead adopting a volume-based fee model, the company has announced. Full fee scale inside plus a quick analysis of how sliding-scale lodgement fees may trap both DEAs and accreditation bodies going forward.
Tags: stroma, accreditation-schemes
Competition for EPCs and HIPs on Google
The competition for advert space on Google Adsense for the key-phrase [Energy Performance Certificate] is huge - 201 ads! Time for a bit of research methinks
Tags: energy-performance-certificate, home-information-pack, dea-marketing
Institute of Domestic Energy Assessors: Has it turned a corner?
The Institute of Domestic Energy Assessors has seemingly identified the real vision which speaks to all Domestic Energy Assessors, and society as a whole. Could this finally signal a turning point? Does it have the balls to follow-through?
DEA Directory Upgrade for Mobile Phones
Bringing Domestic Energy Assessors even closer to clients! This incredible website, once again, walks nonchalantly through the walls of bleeding-edge technology to place its directory listing of DEAs literally one touch away from business.
HIPs: First Day Marketing Extended Again - Why!
So Government has done it again: First Day Marketing is to be extended until April 5th 2009. It has also announced the introduction of PIQs (Property Information Questionaires) on the same day plus a few other measures discussed herein with the occassional comment from IPPA (Independent Pack Providers Association).
Tags: home-information-pack, ippa, legislation, clg
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