Financial mechanisms

The Alisée project aims to support initiatives to reduce energy vulnerability and inequalities through sustainable reponses coordinated with all actors involved to problems encountered by working on the building, equipment, users and occupants, and by working with the various social and technical partners in the territories. Networking aims to equip professionals and volunteers with tools and methods to support households in energy poverty. It relies on raising the awareness of partners on energy and water saving, on training, on individual or collective support for inhabitants, on networking actors to set up a monitoring and data sharing system.

Implementation of One-stop shop to tackle energy poverty in the Grenoble metropolitan area. It aims to reduce consumption, find solutions to pay bills, increase income thanks to an identification by one of the partners, diagnosis, action plan examined by a multidisciplinary committee with adapted solutions.

Energie solidaire is a fundraising solution to support actions mitigating energy poverty based on micro-donations deducted from consumers' bills and donations of energy by producers in self-consumption, sale of surpluses paid back to the project aiming at supporting actions of consumption audit, support to renovation and to find adequate grants.

Energise Sussex Coast (ESC), jointly with local non-profit partners, set up a community energy tariff. Through this tariff, residents could purchase locally generated, green energy from a trusted partner energy company. The tariff was primarily aimed at local people wanting access to green energy and keen to make a contribution to local community energy initiatives.

The programme aims at the extensive energy upgrade of existing homes located in areas under the control of the Republic of Cyprus.

The Renopack/Ecopack, two different measures merged in 2019, give access to 0% interest loans to low-income households owners in Wallonia.

This measure offers an emergency fund available on demand for people having difficulties paying their rents, electricity bills, anything linked to their household's well-being.

The Flemish region hands out interest-free loans for low-income home owners to increase energy efficiency in housing.

The pre-paid offer by EnergierRevolte provides low-income households an easy-to-use way of controlling their electricity costs and thus avoid falling into debt.

The scheme funds energy efficiency improvements in both elderly and vulnerable people’s houses, making their homes more comfortable, healthier and more cost effective to run.