Is yours concerned by the increase?

They seem to be the brush

Energy analyst

Pay less for your energy

Lower your bills by changing supplier with selectra

The time offer at -20 % (HT) compared to the regulated rate

A cheaper fixed price offer!

It is an admission that risks making teeth cringe. While the government praises its reform of the energy performance diagnosis (DPE) as a measure of “justice”, an official document comes to throw a pavement in the pond. In its impact sheet, which the media context has made public, the executive recognizes that the relaxation for electric housing will result in a double penalty: an incentive to renovate reduced and a risk of increase in rents for tenants.

Official admission: the government assumes fewer renovations

The key document is the impact sheet of the decree project which will come into force on January 1, 2026. By lowering the electricity coefficient from 2.3 to 1.9, the reform will bring out “approximately 850,000 dwellings” of the thermal coach status. But the government itself writes the counterpart: this measure “will maintain these accommodation in the rental park, and will reduce the regulatory incentive to renovate“.

The logic is simple: an owner whose accommodation passes “magically” from class F to class E or D no longer has the legal obligation to undertake renovation work before relying it.

For craftsmen and building companies, the impact sheet also anticipates a “risk of lowering demand in energy renovation”. The signal sent is clear: the renovation of these hundreds of thousands of homes is no longer a priority.

Double penalty for tenants: rents up, unchanged invoices

If the owners can blow, the tenants may be disillusioned. The official document confirms this:

The exit from the state of colander will allow the donors concerned (…) to proceed to a revaluation of the rent during the relocation.

Clearly, an owner will not only be able to continue to rent his property without doing any work, but he will also be able to increase the rent each year depending on the reference index of the rents (IRL), or even revalue it during a change of tenant.

Meanwhile, for the occupant, nothing changes: the accommodation remains a thermal colander in fact, with poor comfort and electricity bills which will not benefit from any change in calculation.

The anger of associations

This situation immediately made experts react to the sector. The Negawatt association, cited by context, denounces a sleight of hand with serious consequences:

Not only hundreds of thousands of thermal colanders will artificially out of classes F and G, reducing the incentives to renovate for owners, but in addition some of the occupants of these colanders may see their rent increase

The word “artificial” is at the heart of the problem. The real energy performance of buildings does not improve, only the label changes.

A big gap with the official speech

This analysis, taken from the government’s own documents, strongly contrasts with official communication. In its press release on July 9, Matignon spoke of a “fairer and more coherent DPE”, intended to “target more effectively aid for energy renovation on heated dwellings with fossil fuels”.

If the intention displayed is to focus on gas or fuel oils, the side effect on 850,000 dwellings heated to electricity is now an assumed fact. A political arbitration which relieves many owners, but which sacrifices part of the ambition of overall energy renovation and risks further weakening the most modest tenants.

Pay less for your energy

Lower your bills by changing supplier with selectra

The time offer at -20 % (HT) compared to the regulated rate

A cheaper fixed price offer!