Energy renovation solutions

Objective

Contributes to the goals of the EU Renovation Wave strategy and helps implement current building policies — notably the recast Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) and the European Affordable Housing Plan. Supports energy renovations that provide scalable, high-performance and affordable solutions, increases the attractiveness and cost-effectiveness of building energy upgrades, and reduces the administrative, logistical and financial burden of retrofitting. Also supports the Better Homes partnerships that bring together stakeholders from a fragmented renovation chain to conceptualise and deploy renovation projects on the ground.

Scope (proposals must address one of the two)

• Scope A — Develop and deploy effective Better Homes partnerships at neighbourhood / district / city scale, bringing together market actors and policy frameworks for large-scale renovation rollouts.
• Scope B — Market uptake and policy integration of advanced building policy and information instruments (e.g. building renovation passports, digital building logbooks, performance indicators), demonstrating their value for verification and financing of building renovation.

What this means for cities and regions

Funds the local market-building and policy work that turns single renovation pilots into neighbourhood-scale programmes. Cities and regions can act as anchor partners alongside renovation aggregators, financial intermediaries and energy agencies. Consortia of 3 partners from 3 countries; topic budget €6M at 95% co-financing.