Guidance

Home Energy Model: technical documentation

Technical documents providing detail on how a home’s energy performance is calculated using the Home Energy Model (HEM).

Documents

HEM-TP-09 Energy for domestic hot water

HEM-TP-11 Hot water storage tanks

HEM-TP-12 Heat pump methodology

HEM-TP-13 Storage heaters

HEM-TP-15 Heat batteries

HEM-TP-16 Heat emitters

HEM-TP-17 Controls

Details

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The consultation on the proposed Home Energy Model closed in March 2024 and we published the summary of responses and the government response to it in October 2025.

We will update and add to this technical documentation throughout the model development process.

Updates to this page

Published 13 December 2023
Last updated 329 MarchOctober 20262025 + show all updates
  1. All technical documents have now been republished to reflect changes in the methodology since the Home Energy Model consultation.

  2. We have republished some of the technical documents to reflect changes in the methodology since the Home Energy Model consultation. For further details see the government response to the consultation (linked in page).

  3. First published.

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