UK Energy Performance Certificate toolkit - EPCTK

Introduction

This project aims to be a free and open source implementation of the UK Energy Performance Certificate and underlying RdSAP and SAP models.

The target spec implementation is currently SAP 2009, with the intention of adding newer versions in the future.

It is written in Python (version 3.4 +) for easy integration with other data processing code, with the aim of enabling a variety of workflows. Particular attention will be given enabling highly automated workflows with large datasets. To acheive this goal a number of features are required (which are currently at various stages of completion)

• Implementation of SAP and RdSAP models
• Implementation of model-based EPC outputs
• Standardised data input with well defined input schema
• Adapter code for common data sources
• Reusable, documented and unit-tested code

Motivation

Currently available EPC/RdSAP/SAP are both proprietary and not well suited for inclusion in highly automated workflows. This project provides code that is auditable and readily improved, and easily integrated into other python codebases.

Contents:

• About
  • EPC, RdSAP, and SAP
• SAP Section 2
  • Ventilation
• SAP Tables
• Appendix A
  • Main and secondary heating systems
• Appendix B
  • Gas and oil boiler systems, boilers with a thermal store, and range cooker boilers
• Appendix C
  • Community heating, including schemes with Combined Heat and Power (CHP) and schemes that recover heat from power stations
• Appendix D
• Appendix E
  • Appendix E
• Appendix F
  • Electric CPSUs
• Appendix G
  • Flue gas heat recovery systems and Waste water heat recovery systems
• Appendix H
  • Solar Hot Water
• Appendix J
  • Seasonal efficiency for solid fuel boilers from test data
• Appendix M
  • Energy from Photovoltaic (PV) technology, small and micro wind turbines and small- scale hydro-electric generators
• Appendix N
  • Heat Pumps and Micro CHP
• Appendix T
  • Improvement measures

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page

Links

• Package source on Github