Obtaining EPC Information

If you are interested in Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) then you might be interested in the following ways to obtain information about lodged certificates.

This might be because you are a property owner looking to gain insight into improving your EPC rating, it might be because you are a property owner looking to check the existance of an EPC for your property, or you might be interested from an ecological viewpoint in the rating of EPCs in a particular area.

Here we present three ways of getting EPC information that might be useful.

The simplest way to obtain informatin about lodged Energy Perfomance Certificates is via the two national registers. These are:

https://www.gov.uk/find-energy-certificate - For England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

https://www.scottishepcregister.org.uk/ - For Scotland

You can visit these sites, enter the postcode of your (or any other) property, run a search and view the certificate you are looking for.

If a certificate is not available for the property you are interested in, it's possible that the property might have never had an EPC issued for it (EPCs started in 2007/2008).

Alternatively, its possible that an EPC has been lodged but is hidden from view at the request of the property owner. This is rare however, and EPC reform consultations of 2024/2025 indicate the government will be withdrawing this privacy facility going forwards.

Alternatively, since the 24th June 2024, you can now request full assessment data from the energy assessor who lodged your Energy Performance Certificate.

Full information about this is available on our Assessment Data Sharing page.

Previous to June 2024, it would technically have been against the law for an energy assessor to have provided that information.

FInally, it is possible to download a reasonably large subset of assessment data from lodged EPCs from the opendatacommunities.org website for properties in England and Wales.

At the top end of the scale, you can download a large pre-prepared data file (5.6GB) containing the subset from all EPC certificates.

Smaller pre-prepared downloads are also available for individual counties.

Finally, you can conduct smaller searches of up to 5000 certificates at a time based on various criteria.

The website is at: https://epc.opendatacommunities.org/

Even if you are interested in only one property, the detail of information that is available from this source is significantly more than that available on the EPC certifcate itself.

Data that might be of interest includes the Construction Dateband of the Main Building.