How to stop the collapse of energy renovation works?

Despite the apparent stability of MaPrimeRénov, which finances a catalog of around thirty works in the residential sector, the use of CEEs, the leading energy efficiency financing scheme and financier of a panel of more than 1 energy efficiency works energy in all sectors, is collapsing:

• Fall in the number of works financed by the CEE system: -83% of commitments between H1 and H2 2021 (heating and insulation boost combined);
• Collapse of the level of CEE premiums received by the beneficiary (see image).

This slowdown jeopardizes the sector and its future ability to respond to the ambition displayed by the State in terms of energy independence, the fight against global warming and the improvement of purchasing power.

Restoring the CEE's ability to encourage energy renovation work means adjusting the volume to be produced between 2022 and 2025 (known as the "5th period") upwards.

An increase of one third more compared to the volume currently planned would imply savings of around 800 TWhc, an amount attainable and necessary if we take into account the "stock" of dossiers from the fourth period and already declared to the PNCEE (350 TWhc as of December 31, 2021), as well as stock in germ and which should appear more clearly in the coming weeks.

For Gaëtan Thoraval, CEO of the group: "The longer the wait, the greater the damage in the short and medium term on the sector, and the more expensive or even impossible it will be to relaunch a dynamic that took more than 4 years to to set up. Conversely, an increase in the obligation below the P4 overstock level (estimated at around 800 TWhc) will have little effect, and will send a counterproductive signal to all financiers, operators and energy consumers. . It would confirm a decline in energy renovation in 2022 and certainly in 2023, even though we will have to increase our efforts in the coming years. »

This revival would be beneficial to the sector and to the purchasing power of households: for €1 of aid from the CEE, the average energy saving is €3 over the life of the operation. While the tariff shield will be lifted at the end of the year, the sustainable reduction in energy consumption must be the number one priority for the first 1 days of this new five-year term.