HAS at a time when the government is asking to lower the heating to 19°C to limit our energy consumption, it has canceled through yet another 49.3 two necessary amendments which had been voted on by deputies from the left and the right in favor of accelerating thermal renovation.
Instead, only 100 million euros will be added to the 2023 budget for this policy which should be the country’s top priority. This incoherent decision comes against the backdrop of a major energy crisis, and while 12 million people in France suffer from fuel poverty.
Because they struggle to maintain an acceptable temperature in their homes and to cope with the cost of ever-increasing bills, many suffer the consequences on their health, live under the threat of electricity cuts for unpaid bills or are having to choose between food and heating.
A target of 700,000 global renovations per year
In 2017, the government committed to renovating all thermal colanders within ten years. In 2022, nearly 5.2 million remain. To overcome these energy-intensive and unworthy dwellings, we should reach 700,000 global renovations per year, but the account is not there. If the priority is to save energy, then why go against the major renovation project, when the building sector represents nearly 20% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions?
With 86% of work relating to simple renovations such as changing the windows or the boiler, the few advances made in recent years are far from putting us on track with our climate and social objectives, as real renovations would allow. global.
But the current subsidies do not make it possible to finance these efficient renovations: the aid remains undersized, poorly directed, difficult to mobilize and for the most part unknown. A poor household will be left with an average remaining charge of 39% after the aid, a prohibitive amount, when we know that this type of work costs between 30,000 and 50,000 euros.
Short and medium term measures
Our decision-makers have a duty to put the means on the table to deal with the coming crisis. This is why we immediately call for the formulation of medium-term commitments:
- The commitment of a budget of 5 billion additional euros per year between 2024 and 2040 must be formulated to make possible the comprehensive and efficient renovation of 700,000 housing units per year. The planned increase in public aid would be a powerful lever to encourage companies to bring themselves up to speed, in parallel with the implementation of a real policy of initial and continuous training in efficient renovation.
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