Technical advice and/or intervention

HomeWarming is offered by Efficiency Nova Scotia and Clean Foundation as part of a broad, province-wide initiative to provide energy efficiency upgrades to income-qualified homeowners.

The project Guichet Primes promotes the renovation of private buildings through subsidies or loans with low rates to allow low income families to improve their comfort and the energy performance of their homes.

The website informs about available help and support for households that go into arrears for their energy blls.

The energy scan is a quick assessement of the building - similar to an energy audit, but not quite as detailed. A person comes to the house that the tenant/owner requested the scan for, inspects the building, gives tips about energy consumption, heating and lighting and implements minor energy-saving measures valued up to 25 euros.

There are funds in some departments in France to bring financial support to families in need for renovation work as an attempt to develop simple financial schemes for small yet essential reparations.

On the basis of intensive, personal advice from socially trained energy consultants, low-income households are to be enabled to consciously control their user behavior and to sustainably reduce their energy consumption.

Energy desks are physical places where people can go to and get personalised advice on energy-related topics.

It consists of a training offered to students from UPV (renewable energy engineering) on energy poverty.

The measure aims to help social services to assess energy contracts of vulnerable users.

This experiment makes it possible to make institutions aware of the difficulties in identifying and accompanying households in a situation of energy insecurity and to make the process of housing renovation more accessible.