The government will be “absolutely intractable” with the crooks who are rampant in the market for energy renovation of housing, taking advantage in particular of aid for the installation of heat pumps, assured Thursday evening on France 2 the Minister of Energy Transition Agnès Pannier -Runcher.
This is unacceptable for the French who have resorted to these margoulins and for the finances of the State, reacted the minister after the distribution of a survey on energy renovation, without however advancing new measures to repress fraud.
We will be absolutely intractable in the face of these bad apples who bring discredit to the entire construction trades profession, she insisted, they are scams (…) and anyone who presents himself as a representative of state and approach you is a liar.
Encouraged by the government through various grants, energy renovation and insulation of housing aims to reduce household heating bills and more generally, to save energy.
Insufficient controls
France 2’s Complment d’enqute magazine, however, pointed out the failures of this system: largely insufficient controls as well as the financing of a tiny number of complete upgrades of housing, 13,400 while 680,000 premiums were paid for renovations partial (windows, heating systems, roof insulation, etc.).
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Several reports had also alerted to the shortcomings of MaPrimeRnov’, a system set up in 2020 and endowed with 2.5 billion euros for 2023. The Defender of Rights, an independent authority headed by Claire Hdon, had thus noted the premiums not paid by administration, major technical malfunctions of the site, interminable delays…
In practice, 99% of households only seek MaPrimeRnov’ aid for limited work such as modernizing the heating, windows or roof, to the detriment of an effective overall renovation, also deplored in an opinion voted in November the Economic and Social Council (CESE).
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