The EU Peers community has come together to discuss the most pressing issues that the renovation sector is facing. We are at a crucial moment for its take-off: the end of the Next-Generation Program for renovation in Spain is approaching, and we must plan the future of the sector so that it is consolidated beyond public subsidies.

The first EU Peers "Who is Who" session featured Energiehuis Limburg, a leading one-stop-shop for home energy renovations in Belgium. Since 2009, they have played a key role in making buildings more energy-efficient, completing 1,500 renovations in 2023 alone. In this 30-minute session, Energiehuis shared insights into their journey, public-private partnerships, and the challenges they’ve overcome to achieve impactful results.

In this episode of #RenoChats, Stéphanie Flacher, former BNP Paribas executive and member of the #FIDEOBRE – Banque de la Rénovation Énergétique team, shares insights into how banks can support and finance large-scale energy renovations. Stéphanie discusses the crucial role of banks in advancing energy-efficient renovations, which are vital for both climate goals and reducing household bills. She highlights how banks, guided by stringent legislation and a deeper understanding of climate risks, are evolving to finance properties that meet new environmental standards.

In this episode of #RenoChats, Sébastien Delpont, an expert in home renovation, explores Impact Contracts as a co-financing model. These contracts help measure and reinvest the savings from home renovations, which not only reduce energy bills but also improve health, education, and national energy independence. Sébastien and his team at Ressorts are at the forefront of technical and financial innovation in the renovation sector, both in France and across Europe.

In the first episode of #RenoChats, Françoise Refabert shares her journey and insights on financing energy-efficient home renovations. She discusses the key conditions for successful funding, the challenges in the sector, and the tools needed to scale up renovation efforts across Europe.

This handbook is your comprehensive guide to building financial readiness within energy efficiency projects, whether you are working for a local authority, an energy agency, or someone interested in navigating the complexities of project financing. It is designed to support the development of project proposals that meet the stringent requirements of financial institutions, empowering you to take meaningful steps toward securing funding for your initiatives. Thereby, you will also learn how to make use of the Finance Readiness Tool, that has been developed by the PROSPECT+ team and why it might be of relevance for your project.

The EU Buildings Climate Tracker is an index composed of a set of indicators. It is a response to the challenges of collecting and using data to monitor and assess decarbonisation progress in the EU building stock. Its starting point is the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015, while the objective is defined as climate neutrality by 2050. The Tracker serves as a benchmark and assessment tool for the status of decarbonisation progress in the European buildings sector and its progress towards climate neutrality by 2050. It provides evidence of the need for further action, which should be reflected in an ambitious outcome from the negotiations around the EPBD and the Fit-for-55 package. However, the Buildings Climate Tracker is not a tool for modelling the future: it rather documents the progress achieved since 2015 and puts it into perspective towards 2050, based on one scenario.

In this paper, Christophe Milin and Adrien Bullier from the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA) present a review of various initiatives that aim at developing integrated service offers for the energy renovation of private housing. After clarifying the concept of Integrated Home Renovation Services and positioning it in the current market offer related to home renovation, the paper analyses each step of the customer journey and illustrate how the user experience could be improved, based on local experiences. The authors propose an empirical typology identifying three main models: advice, support and implementation, and the provision of finance as an additional option and discuss how integrated home renovation services could be facilitated and rolled-out throughout the EU.