Day against energy poverty: Hellio mobilized in the fight alongside STOP Energy Exclusion

Faced with soaring energy prices, this phenomenon is likely to become more and more widespread: according to the collective STOP Exclusion Énergétique, 60% of households restrict their energy consumption to limit their energy bill.

Since the creation of the insecurity system within the Energy Savings Certificates (CEE) in 2016, Hellio, a key player in energy management, a long-standing member of the STOP Energy Exclusion collective, has always placed the fight against poor housing at the heart of its priorities.

Hellio has just crossed the bar of 100 million euros in CEE premiums distributed to precarious households, for a total of 55.000 energy saving operations carried out, mainly insulation and heating work.

Reducing the rest payable by the most modest households: a condition for getting out of fuel poverty

Many actions are now being taken to make more efficient heating systems, such as the heat pump, accessible. "Thanks to the additional €1.000 bonus granted as part of MaPrimeRénov' since April 15, 2022 and more recently the €1.000 boost with the CEEs, we are able to install a heat pump for less than €1.000 among precarious households", underlines Arthur Bernagaud, director of Hellio solutions for individual residential.

For a comprehensive renovation, the amount of the remaining charge amounts, on average [1], to between €41.000 for low-income households and €35.000 for a precarious household. Global renovation is then inaccessible for families who sometimes live on less than 10 euros a day. "This overall course of work, which must be composed at least of insulation, replacement of the heating system and ventilation, is however the sine qua non condition for getting out of energy poverty", insists Arthur Bernagaud.

[1] According to a study carried out by Hellio on the evolution of the remaining charge from January 2021 to July 2022

Hellio's commitments alongside the STOP Energy Exclusion collective

As a historical member and committed actor of the STOP Energy Exclusion collective, Hellio takes part in the actions carried out as part of the National Day for the Fight against Fuel Poverty.

A conference will take place at the Salon des Maires et des Collectivités Locales on Thursday November 24 at 10:30 a.m. on the theme "Eradicate severe fuel poverty everywhere in France, sobriety accessible to all", at which Claire Gagnaire, secretary general of Hellio and president of the he association Les Transitionneurs, of which STOP Exclusion Énergétique and Hellio are also part, will participate.

The afternoon will take place at the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion, the presentation of the best solutions for the eradication of energy exclusion and the presentation of trophies to the jury of STOP Energy Exclusion with Claire Gagnaire member of the jury.

Five categories will be rewarded for highlighting solutions that work, promoting them, making them known and duplicating them:

1. Territorial device
2. Training, Mobilization, Communication
3. Funding
4. Technical and digital operators and solutions
5. Identification and support

Another longer-term joint project: Hellio, with STOP Exclusion Énergétique, presented a CEE program to the DGEC in October 2022, called "Zero energy exclusion territories", to finance support for territories in the energy renovation of their homes.

For Didier Maciocia, director of research and development against fuel poverty: "Energy poverty was not born today, it already existed more than 15 years ago! It is a structural crisis that cannot be resolved with short-term solutions, such as the tariff abacus. We must coordination within the territories, with people able to identify households in precarious situations, to understand them, generalist players like Hellio who have the capacity to manage energy renovation projects and mobilize financing, and work that must develop innovative solutions."