Energy renovation: manufacturers publish the White Paper “For a global and efficient building renovation sector”

France will not achieve carbon neutrality in 2050 without the contribution of the construction sector. Because the building sector, far ahead of the transport sector, represents 44% of the energy consumed in France and emits more than 123 million tonnes of CO2 each year*.

The National Low Carbon Strategy (SNBC) therefore very opportunely provides for the efficient renovation (at BBC level) of 500.000 homes per year until 2030, then 900.000 between 2030 and 2050*. However, we are very far from this since in 2023 we have efficiently renovated, as in previous years, around 50.000 homes.

Achieving the objectives set by the SNBC is a major challenge since it represents, by 2050, the equivalent of the production of 65 nuclear power plants. Not only is this considerable, but the efficient building also has a double advantage:

• on the one hand, it is capable of more than offsetting its future needs in the electrification of its heating methods through its gains in energy efficiency and sobriety, making it possible to allocate new carbon-free electricity production capacities to important needs. industry and transport sectors.
• on the other hand, it is capable of producing renewable energy thanks to photovoltaics, solar thermal, biomass and geothermal energy.

Despite the rise of the France Renov system, we are not succeeding. This is why, given the importance of the issue, the CSF IPC is proposing to change the method to bring about the emergence of a global and efficient building renovation sector. In the building sector, this is a change as crucial as that currently experienced by the automobile industry, which is switching from thermal to electric.

The CSF IPC therefore proposes to launch three innovation projects and an experimentation program, in partnership with the State, local authorities, insurers and banks.

1 - The performance guarantee

This subject is central to triggering decision-making: the owner, whether public or private, will only be ready to invest if he has the assurance that the planned savings will be effective.

2 - The evolution of construction methods

There is currently no change in the economic-technical model of the construction sector in favor of renovation. However, the know-how for an efficient renovation exists as demonstrated by numerous examples.

3 - Coordination of actors in the territories

Territorialization will allow the emergence of regional champions of global and efficient renovation. The CSF IPC calls for, with the support of the State and Regions of France, the establishment of an experimental program in two pilot regions: Grand Est and Occitanie. This program, entitled RENOBATI, will provide technical and financial support to 20 territories with ambitious high-performance renovation programs which will have to integrate all types of buildings (individual houses, condominiums, public tertiary sector, private tertiary sector, social park, thermal strainers, etc.) .

For Pierre-Etienne Bindschedler, president of the CSF IPC: “We will only reach the 900.000 housing renovations per year, essential for France to respect the Paris Agreement and crucial for our economy, if the sector gains in productivity thanks to an ambitious disruptive innovation program which includes in particular by its digitization. This necessary condition will not be sufficient. The creation of the global and efficient renovation sector will only be made possible thanks to a profound change in the involvement of insurance companies and banks. The CSF IPC wishes to open this project in partnership with them. »

Download the White Paper here.

* Source Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion