Bruno Le Maire wants the energy performance diagnosis “to be modified”

"You have owners who tell me, 'but your thing is absurd, it favors gas heating rather than electric heating, it penalizes the small areas which are requested by students'. Let's change the energy diagnosis since obviously, it is not the right indicator", declared the minister, speaking to Sud Radio.

“I would like the energy performance diagnosis to be modified to take into account today the biases it has, both on heating methods and on the size of surfaces. We are here to provide solutions to people, not to bring problems,” he added.

While recalling that the government's draft budget for 2024 provides for the strengthening of the MaPrimeRenov' system, Bruno Le Maire added that "we see that there are dead ends here and there, we cannot leave people in the impasses because it creates anxiety, and ecology should not be a source of anxiety but it must be a source of freedom and must allow everyone to adapt to global warming.

The energy performance diagnosis (DPE), which classifies housing from A to G according to their energy consumption and their impact on the climate, is mandatory in housing intended to be inhabited. It is no longer based on energy bills but on the characteristics of the building (quality of insulation, type of windows, heating system, etc.).

The timetable for the ban from 2025 on the rental of housing considered to be "thermal sieves" will be "maintained", even if the government is considering possible "exemptions", the Minister of Energy Transition indicated on Friday , Agnès Pannier-Runacher.

The “Climate and Resilience” law, promulgated on August 24, 2021, plans to gradually prohibit owners of energy-intensive housing from renting their properties, to encourage them to undertake renovation work.

Concretely, owners of housing in energy performance class G, the worst, will no longer be able to sign or renew a lease with a tenant from January 1, 2025. Housing classified F must follow in 2028 and E in 2034.