FiRéno+ has set itself three strategic objectives:
- Promote mutually beneficial actions and collaboration between public authorities and agencies, the non-financial private sector, the financial sector, property owners etc.
- Collectively develop private financing solutions.
- Build capacity by developing turnkey proposals to increase investment in energy efficient renovations and greenhouse gas emissions reduction, and communicating these to decision-makers.
SFO was the coordinator of the residential sector. For that, it has lead 3 working groups on specific thematic:
- How will the banking sector roll out the systematization of renovation loans when taking out a mortgage to promote large-scale energy-efficient renovation?
- Can employer financing have a leverage effect on energy-efficient renovation, and under what conditions?
- How can public housing renovation services and banking offers be coordinated to increase energy-efficient renovations by households?
For over a year, SFO has developed, with the FiRéno+ community to, recommendations and concrete actions to lever the barrier of financing deep renovation of individual homes :
- Frame an advance assistance loan (PADA) dedicated to energy-efficient renovation to ensure that the work is planned and carried out without harm against households nor renovation companies
- Produce and collect an official, universally recognized, automatic energy performance certificate (EPC) after the work is completed
- Conduct an impact study on systematization of an engagement of deep renovation when purchasing an energy-inefficient property
- Improve mechanisms to increase the efficiency of employer funds dedicated to the energy renovation of employees’ individual homes
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