Nonresidential building owners risk five years’ imprisonment or a fine of R5 million if they do not register for an energy performance certificate.
The EPC lead at Sanedi, Nqobile Ngcobo, said that applied to publicly owned buildings of a 1 000m2 size and privately owned buildings of 2 000m2. She however could not say how many were outstanding. “Come December 2025 buildings who have not complied with the regulation will obviously be made an example of,” Ngcobo said.The South African Local Government Association has been hard at work with ensuring that the public sector buildings are in compliance.
Sanedi said because of the slowpaced registrations from 2022, there was an amendment in the Act that pushed building owners to at least register on the website, even if they had not begun the process of the EPC assessment.