REVERTER - Deep REnovation roadmaps to decrease households VulnERability To Energy poveRty

REVERTER aims to decrease energy poverty in Europe by addressing the poor energy efficiency of dwellings of vulnerable households. In this direction, 9 different roadmaps will be developed and tested by setting up a network of pilots in four European countries (Brezovo-Bulgaria, Athens Urban area-Greece, Riga-Latvia and Coimbra-Portugal) that cover different climate regions and socioeconomic conditions regarding age and size of buildings, owner-occupancy rates, percentage of Multi-Family Houses and Single-Family Houses, income, values and beliefs of the inhabitants etc. The roadmaps will target the worst performing homes first (“worst first” principle) and will be tailor-made to the characteristics of the pilot areas. By covering a sufficiently cohesive group of cases, REVERTER will allow for a larger scale rollout and replication of the proposed actions through engagement with local, national and EU stakeholders. Moreover, by focusing on the most cost and environmental effective renovation methods through integrated assessment REVERTER will help to upgrade a greater number of homes for a given budget, maximising energy and costs savings while reducing GHG and other pollutants emissions. Finally, REVERTER will cope with split-incentive dilemmas and will address market, information and behavioural failures through the creation of four “one-stop shops” as defaults for the enrolment of vulnerable households in subsidy schemes for building retrofit. These households will be helped to increase their awareness about efficient energy use before and after energy interventions by the REVERTER Ambassadors, information campaigns and capacity building actions, all with a view to improving their health, well-being and living comfort.

Some concrete key performance indicators (KPIs) of the project include:

Achieved

• Social surveys done: 4
• Number of participants in surveys: more than 2,000 participants (more than 1,400 completed the survey)
• Digital OSS: 4 digital OSS have been launched (https://reverter-brezovo.bg/; https://energeiakistegi.gr/; https://renove.lv/; http://renovar.coimbra.pt/)

To be achieved:

• Primary Energy Savings in GWh/year triggered by the project: 1.85 GWh/year (project-end value)
• Final Energy Savings in GWh/year triggered by the project: 1.07 GWh/year (project-end value)
• Renewable Energy generation in GWh/year triggered by the project: 0.32 GWh/year (project-end value)
• Reduction of GHG in tons of CO2 equivalent per year (tCO2eq/year) triggered by the project: 550 tCO2eq/year (project-end value)
• Cumulative investments in sustainable energy triggered by the project: 1 M€ (project-end value)
• Number of legislation, policies or strategies created/adapted due to the project: 4 (project-end value)
• Number of buildings renovated: 3 multi-apartment buildings and 10 single-family houses (project-end value)
• Demonstration of the effectiveness and replicability of the proposed solutions among energy-poor households: more than 20,000 households through 9 awareness campaigns and information material
• Number of energy-poor consumers impacted by the project: 6,000
• Number of people helped to improve their quality of life by the project: 3,000 through the implementation of 1,500 visits
• Number of households enrolled to retrofit subsidy schemes: 1,000

The project started in 2022 and will be completed in 2025.
Main beneficiaries: energy poor communities, low income households, vulnerable groups, and others.

It addressed the topics of: energy efficiency, health, heating and cooling system, information and awareness, law and legislation, regulation, vulnerable consumers.

The partners of the project are: ETHNICON METSOVION POLYTECHNION - HEI (Greece), INSTITUTO DE SISTEMAS E ROBOTICA-ASSOCIACAO (Portugal), EKODOMA (Latvia), CLUSTER ZELENA SINERGIYA (Bulgaria), FUNDACIO EUROPACE SME (Spain), CENTRE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES AND SAVING FONDATION (Greece), WIT BERRY (Latvia), B. LINK BARCELONA STRATEGIC PROJECTS SL (Spain), OBSHTINA BREZOVO (Bulgaria), ENOSI KATANALOTON POIOTITA TIS ZOIS (Greece).