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MCPE - Mieux comprendre les situations de précarité énergétique pour mieux les traiter/ Better understand energy poverty situations to treat them better

Policies and Measures

Les Compagnons Bâtisseurs (CBP) in the regional branch in Provence launched the project MCPE aiming to assist auto-renovations. Staff of CBP helped households with renovation. The project also developed household awareness campaigns, sociotechnical diagnosis and provided advice. The public targeted were households with arrear bills but also suffering from hidden energy poverty. A technical monitoring committee composed by the Var department, CCAS, local authorities and associations selected beneficiaries and followed each project. Each households benefitting from the project receives 2 home visits:

  • a "dialogue visit" to understand their needs and teach them some basic energy-saving behaviours
  • an "expertise visit" to analyse bills and behaviours, the results are sent to the householder or the social assistant who had identified the household Then a personal monitoring followed that included home renovation and orientation to a more dedicated entity.

Main beneficiaries: the energy-poor.

  • MCPE - Mieux comprendre les situations de précarité énergétique pour mieux les traiter/ Better understand energy poverty situations to treat them better
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  • Countries impacted
    Countries impacted:
    France
  • Geographical scale
    Geographical scale:
    Regional and Local
  • Intervention level
    Energy poverty phase:
    Implementation
    Diagnosis
    Planning
  • Type of intervention
    Intervention type:
    Consumer Advice, protection and empowerment
    Stakeholders' Engagement
    Household energy efficiency and refurbishment
    Stakeholders' Engagement
  • Professionals
    Professionals involved:
    Technician
  • Partners
  • Funding type
    Type of funding:
    Private funds from CD83, ADEME, EDF, Fondation de France, Fondation MACIF; Local funds from Commune de Salernes; Regional funds from Région PACA
  • SDGs addressed:
    SDG 11-Sustainable cities and communities SDG 10-Reduced inequalities SDG 1-No poverty




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