Financing energy refurbishment for social housing.

Given the context of rising energy prices, fuel poverty affecting millions of households across Europe and the need to mitigate climate change, it is crucial that the existing social housing stock be massively refurbished at very low energy standard. With only 3% of the housing stock being refurbished every year, reaching the "Factor 4" objectives implies developing new adapted funding to generalise low energy refurbishment.

In the FRESH project, social housing operators and energy services companies (ESCO) from France, United Kingdom, Italy and Bulgaria propose to open the way and demonstrate that energy performance contract (EPC) can be used in social housing for low energy refurbishment on a large scale.