{"id":4845,"date":"2018-03-18T11:40:29","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T11:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eshcon.co.uk\/?p=4845"},"modified":"2018-03-22T16:22:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T16:22:04","slug":"mees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eshcon.co.uk\/?p=4845","title":{"rendered":"Minimum Energy Efficiency Standard (MEES)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Are you ready for MEES?<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4846 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eshcon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Energy-A-G-rating-t.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"347\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eshcon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Energy-A-G-rating-t.jpg 380w, https:\/\/www.eshcon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Energy-A-G-rating-t-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 347px) 100vw, 347px\" \/>From April 2018, rented buildings must meet new energy efficiency standards. It will be unlawful to rent or lease a property with an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) rating below an E.<\/p>\n<p>This applies to new tenancy agreements now and in 2023 will expand to include all privately rented property included in existing longer-term leases.<\/p>\n<p>New tenancies already must obtain an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC), which have A \u2013 G energy efficiency ratings. Currently 40% of EPCs are rated D or below &amp; 25% are the worst F or G ratings.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Minimum Energy Efficiency Standard (MEES),<\/strong> coming in to force in April 2018, requires the property to achieve an EPC of E or better. This means that if any of your offices, sites or buildings have an EPC with a rating of F or G, you will not be able to lease that property. You must upgrade to E or above before the lease is completed.<\/p>\n<p>There are five Exemptions to MEES:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The efficiency measures cannot be made without third-party consent (e.g. the tenant refuses)<\/li>\n<li>The works devalue the property by 5%<\/li>\n<li>The works cause damage to the property<\/li>\n<li>The landlord is new (&lt; 6 months) so will be allowed time to make the changes<\/li>\n<li>Only measures with a payback of seven years or less will be affected by MEES (they must be cost-effective measures).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Exemptions will cease after 5 years (by 2023). MEES does not apply to properties that are exempt from the EPC Regulations, such as listed buildings.<\/p>\n<p>The regulations will be enforced by Trading Standards. Penalties will be based on the rateable value of the property, up to a maximum of \u00a3150,000.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What should you do now?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Review your sites, offices &amp; properties \u2013 when will the leases need to be renewed, what are the existing EPC ratings, what energy efficiency works have you done or are planned?<\/li>\n<li>Consider redoing existing EPCs \u2013 new standards may have come into force since you did them, possibly meaning the rating may fall or even rise.<\/li>\n<li>Conduct energy efficiency audits of your sites and consider measures to be implemented.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Think about MEES now to avoid problems in the future \u2013 if you can\u2019t let the property without a valid EPC, just think of the loss of income.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>_____________________<\/p>\n<p>Liked this post?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eshcon.co.uk\/sign-up\/\">Sign up for the Eshcon Newsletter.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you ready for MEES? From April 2018, rented buildings must meet new energy efficiency standards. It will be unlawful to rent or lease a property with an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) rating below an E. This applies to new tenancy agreements now and in 2023 will expand to include all privately rented property included [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,11],"tags":[61,60,34],"class_list":["post-4845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-energy","tag-anya-ledwith","tag-efficiency","tag-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eshcon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eshcon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eshcon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eshcon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eshcon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4845"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.eshcon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4885,"href":"https:\/\/www.eshcon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4845\/revisions\/4885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eshcon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eshcon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eshcon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}