UK to Overhaul Home Energy Rating System to Decarbonise Housing Stock

A view of houses in Thamesmead, southeast London, on July 27, 2021. Yui Mok/PA Media

The UK government’s domestic energy performance assessment tool will be updated in a bid to decarbonise UK homes, it was announced on Tuesday.

Building consultancy Building Research Establishment (BRE) said it has been tasked with developing the new Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP), dubbed “SAP 11,” which the BRE said will be more suited to technologies designed to decarbonise homes, such as “heat pumps, renewables, storage technologies, and smart control devices.”