Call to impose EPC rules on landlords as tenants ration energy

As long as tenants choose between heating, eating and PAYING THE RENT then I am OK with that provided they choose the latter.

Reply to the comment left by Suspicious Steve at 17/09/2025 – 17:04
On “…as my friend lives in a terraced council house which amazingly got a C yet the privately owned neighbours which have been improved are D and E !!”

I think that your friends’ neighbours who ‘improved’ their properties probably didn’t know how to beat the EPC system. If anybody wants to know how to beat the system then they can search this site for a recommendation by Mick Roberts, which is useful.

Although it might simply be that your friends’ neighbours made the mistake of replacing their gas condensing boilers for air-source heat pumps, thereby increasing their tenants’ energy costs, increasing their tenants’ tax bills and causing their EPC to deteriorate.

Reply to the comment left by loretta wight at 17/09/2025 – 16:47
Why did you bother if it was already a C?

Reply to the comment left by moneymanager at 12:01

Sorry I quite like the blinking red lights at night when driving through France at night. Like I said as long as they are not near houses I can’t see the problem. Obviously I do not know enough about wind turbines as several things have been pointed out but my understanding was the most efficient system would be wind turbines backed up by mini mini nuclear stations in every town. It has been agreed that residents in France pay peanuts compared to us. Another post mentioned their wind turbines are backed up by nuclear. If we are trying to eradicate fuel poverty surely this is the answer. Where has our green levi charges gone? I for one dread the winter, heating one room with a wood burner and only turning the heating on for an hour so my bedroom is warmed. The first winter we had after the fuel crisis I was going to bed in a room which was 6°. Waking up in the morning with raynaurds disease in my fingers. Sorry to be selfish but a bit of light pollution and a few bird casualty’s don’t come anywhere close to the suffering with the cold and not being able to afford to heat our house like we used to.

Reply to the comment left by Slooky at 17/09/2025 – 20:10
Sounds like you need a modern gas condensing boiler.

Aren’t you connected to the gas network?

Reply to the comment left by Beaver at 18/09/2025 – 09:42
Yes we do have gas and an old boiler but if I can’t afford to heat the house properly I can’t afford a new boiler!!!!!

Reply to the comment left by Slooky at 18/09/2025 – 09:44
Slooky, I don’t mean to be unkind and I am sorry to hear of your illness, but how will raising the EPC rating to C deal with fuel poverty?

Reply to the comment left by Slooky at 20:10

Quite apart from the light pollution which I think is vile, the land surrounding them becomes an extremely dangerous place to be, for instance in winter, any formed ice is thrown off at very High speed, I’ve seen warning exclusion signs. The solution to intermittent generation by wind of mini nuclear is beyond absurd, can’t you see that all that does is to require investment in a stable, base load generating capacity to be put on standby for when the presumably very efficient but completely unpredictable wind don’t blow and windmills don’t turn and who we then pay for the times they actually produce too much. Into that mix you have to factor that intermittent generation adds significantly to network risk, if generation falls short of demand or exceeds it for almost no time at all you can create fires and explosions, however powered, large turbines have inertia which aids network balancing and even generates electricity if the fuel goes off line and supply only slowly falls, if the wind stops or clouds appear (how dare they?) generation stops immediately requiring that mini nuclear station to spin up instantly except it can’t so it has to be ready to step straight into your windmills’ shoes. I have a relative working in structural steel for off shore wind turbines and he says that if the public knew how inefficient they were, the industry would close instantly, it’s a scam wrapped up in an ecological duvet.

Reply to the comment left by Ian Narbeth at 18/09/2025 – 11:11
It won’t. I don’t agree with raising it to C

So what is the epc rating on social.housing and council houses. Are they a C?