ORFEE
Office of Renovations and Financings for Energy Efficiency
About
Funding program
H2020
Duration
2020 - 2024
Coordinator
Partners
ARTEE, Effinergie, Global New Energy Finance, Latournerie Wolfrom Avocats, Marsh SAS, Oktave, Pouget Consultants, Ile-de-France Energies, SPEE PicardieWebsite
The European Union wants to achieve a zero-emission building stock by 2050 and local one-stop shops (OSS) for home energy renovation are key to achieving this target. According to the recently adopted Energy Efficiency Directive and the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, Member States will need to roll out one OSS for every 80,000 inhabitants or at least one per region to accompany homeowners, including those living in energy poverty and vulnerable households, on their renovation journey.
In France, five Third-Party Financing Companies (TPFC), a specific local model of OSS, have been providing Integrated Home Renovation Services to homeowners for more than 10 years. In the framework of the ORFEE project, they joined forces with their partners, to improve the servicess provided to homeowners and to make their business model more sustainable.
The ORFEE project, which ended in May 2024, had 3 main objectives:
- Optimise TPFC’s resources to generate more financing for energy renovation of private housing by issuing green loans to achieve attractive volume for investors.
- Develop and implement a quality compliance framework, issue quality guarantees for home-energy renovations.
- Reduce TPFC’s costs by pooling investments and resources through standardized and optimised procedures and dissemination of results.
In 4 years, the initial objectives have been achieved, although the ways leading to the results were not always the ones the partnership imagined at the project start.
Find the key outcomes of the ORFEE project on the website of SERAFIN association which is itself one of the key results of this exciting project!
