Unfortunately I don’t know where a table of approved heat pumps is (maybe the BRE website somewhere?). I did this over a phone conversation with my EPC assessor and he was checking a list within his EPC writing software (not sure which one). Sorry not to be more helpful!
Any EPC certification needs to meet BRE requirements, so as you say, BRE is probably the place to look. The table, if any, is, in effect, a scale of recommendations, so it ought to be public but the BRE might have other ideas.
Edit: I have had a look on the BRE website and assume that what we are after is under “Domestic Annual Heat Pump System Efficiency (DAHPSE)” but I haven’t found it yet.
When I couldn’t find the heat pump table we are looking for I asked BRE and this is what they sent:
https://www.ncm-pcdb.org.uk/sap/pcdbsearch.jsp?type=362&pid=31
It isn’t what we wanted but could be useful non the less.
As a follow up I checked the BRE database again today. They do not have the current model for my heat pump but the previous one is there. One hopes that there has been an improvement since then.
https://www.ncm-pcdb.org.uk/sap/pcdbdetails.jsp?pid=31&id=106479&type=362&mid=020045
Apparently to get the points out of this you need the assessment software. The points are not published separately.
As a matter of interest I also found my MVHR.
https://www.ncm-pcdb.org.uk/sap/pcdbdetails.jsp?pid=34&id=500480&type=323&mid=020004
PS. As a further follow up I have been in touch with my EPC assessor and unfortunately:
- After 3 months a full resurvey is required.
- He claims the current version of the software cannot access the BRE database. This contradicts what @Ben_Woodhams’ assessor said a year ago.
I know that the software for new and existing properties differs, as more should be known about the ones currently being built. That may be the source of the difference.