How energy efficient is your house?
Use our interactive to see how your home’s carbon footprint compares thetimes.co.uk/article/carbon…
Use our interactive to see how your home’s carbon footprint compares thetimes.co.uk/article/carbon…
The Times has built a searchable tool to contextualise the carbon footprint of homes in England and Wales.
About 15 per cent of the UK’s total CO2 emissions and two fifths of our total energy output come from the way we use and heat our homes.
Properties in the private rental sector are among the least energy efficient, producing greenhouse gas emissions of around 11 megatonnes of CO2 equivalent each year and account for a disproportionately high number of fuel-poor households.
Although we are tiptoeing towards higher efficiency, we are actually further away from what inspectors say we could be achieving. This is mostly due to newer homes with a higher potential energy efficiency being added to the dataset.
According to estimates made by EPC inspectors, it would cost between £176 billion and £305 billion to make every home in England and Wales as energy efficient as possible.
Craig Bowling, a domestic energy assessor for VeriSmart in Bournemouth and Southampton, told the Times he had seen improvements in energy performance but that changes still needed to be made.
Read more: thetimes.co.uk/article/carbon…
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