Energy Performance Certificates (EPC)

Energy Performance Certificates (EPC)#

Last modified: 16 Jun 2025

UK LLC provides Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) data for domestic properties in England and Wales, detailing energy efficiency (bands A–G), carbon emissions, fuel costs, floor area and other property characteristics.

More information about this dataset is available here.

An Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) contains information on the energy efficiency of a building (from most efficient band A to least efficient band G). The energy performance records also contain a detailed breakdown of energy use, carbon dioxide emissions, fuel costs, average floor area sizes and numbers of certificates recorded. Available since 2008, an EPC is required when a building is constructed, sold or let and it is valid for 10 years. This dataset provides the EPCs including 54 variables on the characteristics of domestic properties in England and Wales.

1. Summary#

Household level, England and Wales

An Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) provides information on the energy efficiency of a building. Since 2008, an EPC is required when a building is constructed, sold or let and it is valid for 10 years.

Dataset Descriptor	Dataset-specific Information
Name of dataset in TRE	EPC_certificates_england_wales
Citation (APA)	Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities. Energy Performance of Buildings Data England and Wales.2024. url: https://epc.opendatacommunities.org
Download citation	TBC
Owner	Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
Temporal coverage	2008-2024
Geographical coverage	England and Wales
Key link	https://epc.opendatacommunities.org/docs/guidance
Keywords	Energy, propoerty type, environmental impact, emissions
Participant count	TBC
Number of variables	TBC
Number of observations	TBC
Latest extract date	TBC
Specific restrictions to data use	TBC
Build a data request	TBC
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Variables: TBC

2. Metrics#

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3. Version History#

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4. Documentation#

We are currently building a documentation storage system which will host relevant and useful documents related to datasets, groupings, and studies themselves.

5. Useful Syntax#

Below we will include syntax that may be helpful to other researchers in the UK LLC TRE. For longer scripts, we will include a snippet of the code plus a link to the UK LLC GitHub repository where you can find the full scripts.