The energy efficiency assessment service is a new pilot scheme to help organisations understand how to reduce energy consumption with the aim of reducing costs.
Who is it for
The service is open to community groups, charities and businesses. It relates to non-domestic buildings only.
What is it?
The energy efficiency assessment is conducted by an in house accredited non-domestic energy assessor, and aims to support community groups, charities and businesses to identify energy saving opportunities within their buildings and operations.
The service offers non-domestic Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) as well as energy efficiency advice and support.
Energy Performance Certificate (EPC)
We will organise a site visit and conduct a comprehensive assessment of your building's construction, energy usage patterns, efficiency and potential energy savings, applying the Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) methodology.
We will lodge your EPC on the central non -domestic EPC register.
* A non-refundable EPC lodgement fee must be paid prior to assessment.
You can find out more about EPCs on our About energy performance certificate (EPC) for commercial buildings webpage.
Energy Efficiency Recommendations
The Energy Efficiency Recommendation Report will go beyond an EPC.
We will work with you to:
- Truly understand your energy usage, patterns and operations
- Review your bills
- Run modelling on potential improvements to define potential savings
- Highlight potential funding opportunities
- Support with finding a supplier for energy improvement works
You can expect to receive a comprehensive report. It will detail recommended energy efficiency measures, implementation advice and potential suitable funding support.
If you have any further questions, you can talk to your energy assessor and get advice.
How much does it costs
The charges vary depending on your organisation type and building type and sizes.
You will be provided with a tailored quote specific to your organisation and buildings.
For indication only, for a small property that will take 2 days in total to provide the full service:
- For a place providing only vital community services like a food bank, warm hub, the fees would be the EPC lodging fee of £44
- For community organisations (for example a small community hall): the fees would be £800
- Businesses (small business premises): the fees would be £1,150
Register to get a energy efficiency assessment quote
How it works
- To get your commercial energy efficiency assessment quote, complete the registration form to the best of your availability. This information will be used to prioritise which customers receive the service in the case of high level of applications.
- As this is a pilot, we will follow up with a confirmation email to inform you as to whether you have been selected to receive the service.
- Upon selection, our assessor will contact you directly to ask any additional questions needed to provide a quote.
- Upon your approval of the quote, we will contact you to organise a site visit.
- You will need to supply a floor plan, occupancy patterns, energy usage data for 1st September 2023 – 30th August 2024.
- You will need to pay the non-refundable EPC lodging fee of £44 upfront.
- We will complete the assessment, lodge the EPC, and provide a full energy efficiency report with recommendations.
- You will be invoiced for the remainder of service payment if applicable.
- You can contact our assessor for support and guidance after receiving the report
Register to get an energy efficiency assessment quote
Why get an energy efficiency assessment?
- Make potential monetary savings through implementing the energy recommendations, improving your buildings energy efficiency
- Understand your theoretical carbon emission output and how this can be improved
- Increasing your EPC grade could boost your buildings commercial value, doing so through the recommendations from your energy assessment
- Demonstrate your intention to make your building more energy efficient making it more attractive to clients and help your organisation lower your carbon emissions
- Make sure your building is compliant with government regulatory requirements. If you are selling or letting your property as a commercial landlord.
- Understand your building more, based on its construction (Heating, ventilation, cooling, fabrics, lighting systems) and how these factors affect its energy efficiency
- If you have altered your building since the last EPC lodgement, you can demonstrate your improvements with a new EPC
- Improve the health and comfort of building for employees
Register to get an energy efficiency assessment quote
Other decarbonisation services
We also offer a range of decarbonisation services to businesses and organisations:
Business decarbonisation assessment and loan
We are developing a new business decarbonisation loan for small and medium enterprises (SME) and charities located in participating Districts and Boroughs of Woking, Guildford, Waverley, Reigate and Banstead, Spelthorne and Surrey Heath. The first stage to apply for a business decarbonisation loan is for your organisation to have a decarbonisation assessment.
- A free decarbonisation assessment – it's a one-hour desk based virtual walk around your premises to get an overview of your energy use, limitations, opportunities, as well as getting an overview of your purchases, supply chain and transport usage
- The decarbonisation loan is up to £15,000 and up to 50% of decarbonisation projects costs with a competitive interest rate to finance your decarbonisation and energy efficiency projects
Find out more about the Business decarbonisation assessment and loan
Business decarbonisation course and carbon calculator
We also offer a free business decarbonisation course designed to help you understand how climate change might affect your organisation and what you can do to build
resilience, how to calculate your organisation's carbon footprint, build your decarbonisation plan and learn how to leverage your decarbonisation journey.
Once you are attending the course, you will be given access to the Climate Essentials carbon calculator, so you can calculate your organisation's carbon footprint
Climate Essentials is a carbon management platform that helps organisations measure, track and reduce their carbon emissions to make their net-zero strategies successful.
Find out more about the decarbonisation course and carbon calculator
Domestic energy advice
If you are looking for a domestic home energy survey, find out more about the Home Energy Advice Team.