Commercial EPC St Helens - Domestic EPC

The EPC - Energy Performance Certificate looks similar to the certificates now provided with domestic appliances such as refrigerators and washing machines.
It tells potential buyers and tenants in St Helens about the energy performance of a building so they can consider energy efficiency as part of their investment or business decision to buy or occupy that building.
All EPCs come with a recommendation report which includes advice and suggestions on improvements you could make to save money and energy.

In St Helens if you are offering any accommodation for sale or let (this includes sub-letting) you will need to make an EPC available that reflects the energy performance of the accommodation in St Helens  on offer.

A St Helens EPC should be provided to a prospective buyer or tenant at the earliest opportunity and no later than when a viewing is conducted or when written information is provided about the building or in any event before entering into a contract to sell or let.

As a seller or landlord in St Helens you are responsible for ensuring there is an EPC available for the accommodation being sold or let even if an agent or another service organisation is acting on your behalf.
You should therefore ensure any agents acting on your behalf are complying with the Regulations.

When a building is constructed in St Helens, it is the responsibility of the person carrying out the construction when the building is physically complete to give an EPC and recommendations report to the owner of the building and to notify Building Control that this has been done.


By law in St Helens, EPCs can only be produced by an accredited Energy Assessor. The accreditation schemes protect builders, owners, landlords and tenants by making sure Energy Assessors have the appropriate skills to carry out energy assessments, and that EPCs are always of the same high quality.

St Helens based Clear Commercial Energy Reports have such qualifications to carry out EPC's as well as a whole range of other services to get the best of making your property more energy efficient in St Helens

The energy assessor will need to understand the internal layout of the building, how it has been constructed, what it is designed to be used for, the services an lighting and controls used. This is to understand the energy demands of each individual space (zone) in accordance with its designed use.

This information is fed into a Government approved software package which will produce your EPC. At the same time recommendations will be produced by the software and reviewed by the assessor with their knowledge of your building in St Helens to produce a recommendations report to accompany your certificate.

All Energy Performance Certificates in St Helens must be registered and stored in the national register at www.ndEPCregister.com. with a unique reference number. This must be done by the Energy Assessor in conjunction with their accreditation scheme.