The Flemish Energy Agency is launching “Test-your-EPC”, an instrument with which people can easily check how energy-efficient their home is. The energy label EPC is becoming increasingly important: from 2021, both new and existing owners of a house or apartment with poor energy performance can qualify for a new EPC label premium.
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By 2050, the Flemish government wants every house and apartment to achieve an A-label. At the moment, apartments achieve an average C-label, while single-family homes average an E-label. The renovation rate must therefore increase considerably.
An important step for this is awareness. That is why the Flemish Energy Landscape is launching the tool “Test-your-EPC”, which allows people to quickly check how a home scores compared to similar homes in the municipality, province or Flanders. Figures are also given about the number of solar panels, solar boilers and heat pumps in Flemish homes and a number of useful tips and referral addresses to get started.
If a house does not yet have an EPC, the owner will receive an indication of the energy label of the house via a short questionnaire and he can compare this indicative energy label with similar houses. For the actual energy label, an official EPC must of course still be drawn up by a recognized energy expert type A.
“Continuing to invest in a better energy label for our home is very important, both for the climate, a lower energy bill, but also for the extra comfort and value retention of our home,” says Luc Peeters, administrator-general of the Flemish Energy Agency. Anyone who owns a home with a label E or F, and who thoroughly renovates it to a label A, B or C within a period of 5 years, will therefore be able to apply for an EPC label premium from 2021.
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