For housing associations
Independent numbers for the homes you look after
From 30 November 2026, Awaab’s Law adds excess cold to the hazards social landlords must investigate and fix on fixed timescales, alongside damp and mould. Both come back to one question: can this home be kept warm, and can the tenant afford to do it? We give you the numbers, from independent sources, that answer it.
Ready today
Free to use, with no sign-up. Each publishes its method and dates its sources.
Warm home check
From a home’s EPC, what heating it properly costs a week in January and on average, on its current heating and on a heat pump, at its own region’s price cap. Prints as a one-page summary for a case file or report.
Smart meter analysers
A tenant’s own electricity or gas download, read on their own device: when the heating runs, what stays on overnight, and what’s using the money. Never uploaded, so an officer can use it with a tenant at a home visit.
Heat pump running costs tenants can believe
Measured across 45,602 UK heat pump households rather than modelled, with the heat pump calculator alongside. Independent of installers and manufacturers.
Direct debit checker
Whether a tenant’s monthly payment is right for the year ahead, winter included: the conversation that stops a bill shock becoming arrears.
Regional prices and area data
The price cap for every region and the typical home’s energy use in every council area, from government data.
The tenant energy pack
What a licence adds, built with you for your homes and your schemes.
Handover pages for each retrofit scheme
A page for each scheme in your name, reached by a QR code in the tenant’s welcome pack: what the new heating should cost month by month, how to set it, and when to call you.
Your stock as the defaults
The warm home check and heat pump tools set up with your homes’ heating systems, heat pump models and tariffs, so officers aren’t typing assumptions.
Tools on your own website
Any of the tools embedded on your tenant pages, with our name visible so tenants can see the numbers aren’t a sales pitch.
Before and after evaluation
For a retrofit scheme: what homes used and paid before and after, from tenants who choose to share their smart meter data, in a report for your board or funder.
Why tenants believe it
Advice from an installer or a manufacturer reads like a sales pitch, and tenants know it. Energycosting takes no commission, passes no details to installers and captures no leads. Every figure links to its source and its date, and every method is published.
That matters most after a heat pump goes in. Our analysis of real heat pump homes shows they use far less electricity than headline figures suggest, and explains the overnight running that worries tenants, so the reassurance rests on measured data rather than a brochure.
Prices
Priced on the homes in your retrofit or support programme, not your whole stock. The public tools and embeds stay free.
| Licence | Homes | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Pilot | One scheme, up to 200 homes, six months | £1,500 one-off, includes a short evaluation |
| Small | Up to 250 homes in your programme | from £3,000 a year |
| Medium | 250 to 1,000 homes | from £6,000 a year |
| Large | 1,000 to 5,000 homes | from £12,000 a year |
| Very large | More than 5,000 homes | by quote |
Setting the tools up with your stock: about £1,000 once. Evaluation reports for a scheme: £2,500 to £5,000. Prices exclude VAT if it applies.
Common questions
- Is the warm home check a hazard assessment?
- No. Whether a home has an excess cold or damp and mould hazard is for a trained assessor. The check gives them the running-cost side: what heating the home to a recognised standard costs, on its current system and on a heat pump, at today’s prices.
- What happens to tenant data?
- Nothing is collected. Every tool runs in the browser, and smart meter files are read on the tenant’s own device and never uploaded. If a scheme needs tenants to share data for an evaluation, it is only with their consent, under a written agreement with you, and we will set that out before anything is shared.
- Why pay when the tools are free on the website?
- The public tools stay free. A licence pays for the parts made for you: scheme handover pages in your name, your stock as the defaults, support for your staff, and evaluation reports.
- Can we buy this without a tender?
- The prices are set to sit within the amounts most landlords can buy on a simple quote, but your own procurement rules decide. The pilot is designed to be signed off by a project manager.
Start with one scheme
A six-month pilot on one retrofit scheme, with handover pages for its tenants and a short evaluation at the end. If it doesn’t help your tenants or your team, you’ll know for £1,500.
Email hello@energycosting.co.ukAwaab’s Law timescales: summary of phases and dates. We are not legal advisers; check your obligations with your own advisers.