Energy certificates: How energy efficient is the building?

The energy certificates issued for the buildings on a property: an energy rating from A to G, a heating colour and the validity period. Norwegian certificates from Enova, Swedish energideklarationer from Boverket, in the same response.

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• Try it in under a minute
• One GET call
• A to G rating
• Enova and Boverket data
• Norway and Sweden

From building to energy certificate

The call tells you how energy efficient the buildings on a property are, and whether the certificate is still valid. Managers use it for ESG reporting across a portfolio, banks use it to price green loans against the EU taxonomy, and developers use it to decide which buildings need upgrading first, without having to collect certificates building by building before setting priorities.

Without the call you have to look up each building separately, either on energimerking.no or in the property panel. Here all the certificates for the property's buildings come in one response, marked with the building they apply to, the rating from the energy certificate (A best to G worst) and a colour code for the heating source. A property with several buildings can have a different rating for each building, and certificates are issued and renewed independently of each other, so two buildings on the same plot can have very different validity dates.

Norwegian certificates come from Enova's register, Swedish energideklarationer from Boverket. The source field shows which of the two a certificate comes from, and the issuedDate and validToDate fields show whether the certificate needs renewing soon, which is mandatory when selling or letting both homes and commercial buildings.

The heatingGrade field is a separate colour code for the heating source itself, independent of the energy rating: a building with a heat pump or district heating scores better here than one with purely electric heating, even though both can have the same letter rating. Together the two fields give you a quicker picture of a building than the rating alone, and they are useful when an investor compares upgrade costs across a portfolio with different heating histories.

• All the buildings in one response

  Without the call each building has to be looked up separately, either on energimerking.no or in the property panel. Here all the certificates for the property's buildings come in one response, marked with the building they apply to.

• Heating colour alongside the rating

  heatingGrade scores the heating source itself independently of the letter rating, so a building with a heat pump or district heating stands out from one with purely electric heating.

• Norwegian and Swedish source in the same field

  The source field shows whether the certificate comes from Enova or Boverket, so you do not need to know in advance which country and register a building belongs to.

Fields that actually tell you something

One GET call on the property returns the energy certificates for all the buildings on it.

GET/properties/{country}/{cadastreId}/energy-certificates

curl -X GET "https://data.placepoint.no/properties/NO/0301-209-369-0-0/energy-certificates" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"

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{
  "items": [
    {
      "buildingNumber": "1",
      "label": "C",
      "heatingGrade": "YELLOW",
      "issuedDate": "2021-05-10",
      "validToDate": "2031-05-10",
      "source": "ENOVA"
    }
  ]
}

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Vis alle felt (12)

Felt	Type	Beskrivelse
items[].buildingNumber	string	The building the certificate covers.
items[].label	string	Energy label, A best to G worst.
items[].heatingGrade	string	Heating-source color grade.
items[].issuedDate	string	When the certificate was issued.
items[].validToDate	string	When the certificate expires.
items[].source	string	Leverandør behind the certificate: ENOVA for Norway, BOVERKET for Sweden.
items[].certificateNumber	string	Certificate number in the source register.
items[].unitNumber	string	The unit the certificate covers, where it covers one bruksenhet.
items[].buildingCategory	string	Registered building category, e.g. Boligblokk.
items[].buildingAreaM2	number	The area the certificate was calculated for, in square meters.
items[].deliveredEnergyKwhM2	number	Calculated delivered energy per square meter per year, in kWh.
items[].documentUrl	string	Signed URL to the certificate PDF, valid for 15 minutes.

The issuedDate and validToDate fields show whether the certificate needs renewing soon, which is mandatory when selling or letting both homes and commercial buildings.

Try it in under a minute

1. Log in with GitHub

   One click, under a minute, no payment card. The key comes back to this page.

2. Call the endpoint

   Replace $TOKEN in the curl above with your key; the call only needs the country code and the matrikkelnummer.

3. Use the response

   Use the rating and the heating colour to decide which buildings in the portfolio need upgrading first, or for ESG reporting across several properties.

Data and sources

Norwegian energy certificates come from Enova, updated continuously. Swedish energideklarationer come from Boverket via Combify. Both registers are public, but the call combines them per property so that you do not need to know in advance which country and register a given building belongs to.

See also

• Map layer: Energy
• The ESG report
• Technical reference
• Placepoint API

Questions and answers

How fresh is the data?

Norwegian certificates come from Enova continuously, Swedish energideklarationer from Boverket via Combify. Both registers are public and are updated independently of each other.

Why do two buildings on the same property have different ratings?

Certificates are issued and renewed independently for each building, so two buildings on the same plot can have different ratings and very different validity dates.

Does it work in Sweden?

Yes. Swedish energideklarationer come from Boverket via Combify, marked with the source field so that you can see which register the certificate comes from.

What is the difference between the energy rating and the heating colour?

The rating from A to G measures the building's calculated energy demand. The heating colour only measures the heat source itself, so a building can have the same rating as another one with a completely different heating colour.

See how energy efficient the buildings actually are

One GET call gives you the energy rating and heating colour for all the buildings on the property, Norwegian and Swedish sources in the same response. Log in with GitHub for a trial key.

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