📉 According to the European Climate Neutrality Observatory, “progress on buildings has been far too slow” and achieving the zero-emission building stock by 2050 target means Member States have no time to lose.

🗒 The recent adoption of two major directives for the European Green Deal (the Energy Efficiency Directive and the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive) has given Member States a framework for reducing emissions and energy use in buildings across the EU, together with new targets, policies and tools.

🏡 Among other things, both Directives recognise one-stop shops (OSS) as a major tool for boosting home energy renovation. More specifically, Article 22 § 3 of the Energy Efficiency Directive urges Member States to create a “supportive framework […] in particular for the creation of one-stop shops.”

🤔 You do not know what a supportive national framework for OSS should look like?

💡 Building on the experience and lessons learned ‘in the field’ by the five French Third-Party Financing companies (a specific local OSS model), SERAFIN association drafted key recommendations for Member States wishing to create a dream country for OSS. Here is what Member States should do!

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The document aims to achieve the goal of providing a refinancing solution for STF’s building renovation loans. It involves analyzing the business model and operational setup of the “Service Public de l’Efficacité Energétique” (SPEE) in Hauts-de-France, exploring a financial structure to refinance SPEE’s direct loans. The findings highlight challenges in SPEE’s loan origination process, marketing strategy, and loan administration procedures. Additionally, it discusses the potential use of the securitization market for refinancing.

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2021 | Françoise Réfabert – Energies Demain, Krushna Mahapatra – Built Environment and Energy Technology Linnaeus University, Jean-Charles Hourcade – Centre International de Recherche sur l’Environment et le Development (CIRED)

Among the set of public policy measures recommended by the European Energy Performance Building Directive, One-stop-shops for housing energy-efficient renovations (OSS) are outlined as “accessible and transparent advisory tools“, playing the role of a “trusted third party” and “aggregating housing renovation projects”.

However, the existing one-stop shops do not correspond to a standardised service offer, neither to energy savings thresholds, technical criteria, or quality of renovation specifications.

As homeowners do not particularly prioritise energy efficiency when they want to improve their homes, and their willingness to pay for advice is low, in advance of retrofits, most of one-stop shops need a support from the public sector. The envisaged revision of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive is an opportunity to set stricter energy efficiency criteria for housing renovation. One-stop-shops, defined as services of general interest, would be a key measure to implement them on the ground in a way that is adapted to local conditions.

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September 2021 | ORFEE

This benchmark aims to carry out an inventory and critical analysis of existing initiatives in the field of quality control and compliance of high-performance renovation works in residential buildings in Europe. It is the first deliverable of Work Package 2 of the ORFEE project. Its main challenge is to prefigure the quality and compliance framework of the ORFEE project.

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 Décembre 2020 | ORFEE

L’un des objectifs du projet ORFEE est de faciliter l’utilisation du fonds européen de développement régional (FEDER) pour favoriser les rénovations énergétiques performantes du secteur résidentiel privé. Aussi, le memorandum ci-dessous vise à présenter :

• le retour d’expérience de nombreux Conseils Régionaux concernant le recours au FEDER pour financer les politiques régionales en faveur de la rénovation énergétique du parc résidentiel privé, sur la période 2014-2020 ;
• le contexte du marché de la rénovation énergétique du parc privé qui justifie le recours au FEDER ; 
• les modalités envisageables pour que le FEDER puisse contribuer au financement des dispositifs de conseil à la rénovation et soit utilisé sous forme d’instrument financier. Le projet ORFEE est l’opportunité de réunir les parties prenantes de ce projet pour en définir l’organisation.

Memorandum