Submitted on Friday 10th October 2014
Published on Monday 13th October 2014
Current status: Closed
Closed: Monday 30th March 2015
Signatures: 83
Stop SAP from penalizing domestic users of biomass boilers in Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs)
A simple question:
How is it possible that the EPC Energy Efficiency Rating of oil / gas boilers is better (higher band / score) than biomass boilers, which are considerably more efficient (>90%) & more environmentally friendly (less pollution / less carbon dioxide per year)?
The answer:
1) Someone within a government department decided that wood pellets will be more expensive than oil & gas. It has been shown that wood pellets are considerably cheaper and the cost of oil & gas is steadily going up in price, whilst wood pellets are not.
2) The software used to generate SAP EPCs has significant problems. HETAS & MCS have a detailed database of recommended renewable appliances with their tested efficiencies. SAP have their own separate databases, the PCDB for RdSAP EPCs & the SAP Appendix Q database for full EPCs. HETAS & MCS approved biomass boilers are not on the SAP databases & can not be used in generating EPCs - hence incorrect EPCs.
Just use one database.
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