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Two thirds of UK homes 'fail on energy efficiency targets'By Rob Halden-PrattBBC Shared Data Unit 2 March 2020 Related TopicsClimate change Image copyrightScience Photo LibraryImage captionExperts say the UK needs to retrofit homes to make them energy efficientNearly two thirds of UK homes fail to meet long-term energy efficiency targets, according to data analysed by the BBC.More than 12 million homes fall below the C grade on Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) graded from A-G.It means householders spend more on energy bills and pump tonnes more CO2 into the atmosphere than necessary.The government has said it needs to go "much further and faster" to improve the energy performance of homes.Experts say retrofit measures are needed because so many homes were built before the year 1990. Dr Tim Forman, a research academic at the University of Cambridge's Centre for Sustainable Development, said now only a national project of a scale not seen since World War Two, wou…