Now everyone can do an EPC thanks to new phone app

As seen on Estate Agent on Friday 27th August 2010

In what sounds like bad news for the already beleaguered energy assessor industry, a new phone app is being launched which will give everyone the ability to audit and generate an EPC certificate A to G rating on any home.

A London firm called Qreative Medias is behind the application ‘Home Energy Performance’ which is available on the iPhone and iPad in the Apple Stores.

It is thought users will be home owners, buyers, estate agents, letting agents and builders.

The app not only delivers an energy rating but also recommendations and advice, with a pdf report.

The report indicates the Energy Performance Certificate score, including the A to G graph required under the EU directive. The app is available worldwide and in several different languages.


However, a spokesman for Qreative Media said that whilst the app generates an EPC, exactly as a survey would do and in conformity with guidelines, it would not count as the 'real' thing in terms of requirements for selling or renting a property, as it is generated by the iPhone user and not by a registered and accredited Domestic Energy Assessor.