Question 8057 — housing

Summary

Mr. Frédéric Falcon draws the attention of the Minister to the Minister of Regional Planning and Decentralization, responsible for housing, to the primary energy conversion coefficient of electricity used in establishing the energy performance diagnosis (DPE). Today set at 2.3, this coefficient is significantly higher than the European recommendation of 1.9 and the coefficient of 1 applied to natural gas. This This situation systematically places homes heated with electricity, even if well insulated, at a disadvantage compared to those using fossil fuels, despite a French energy mix that is mainly carbon-free thanks to nuclear power. In February 2024, Mr. Brice Lalonde, president of the Équilibre des energies association, estimated at one million the number of homes heated with electricity classified, wrongly, as thermal sieves. The fact, for a home, to switch from electric heating to gas heating, even though it emits more greenhouse gases, with the sole aim of obtaining a better classification in the DPE after significant financial efforts by its owner, goes against the very spirit of the climate and resilience law. According to ADEME statistics, 32% of apartments in Île-de-France heated with electricity would thus be considered as thermal strainers, compared to only 14% for gas-heated homes. While in October 2024, Ms. Agnès Pannier-Runacher, Minister of Ecological Transition, Biodiversity, Forests, Sea and Fisheries, had mentioned a possible lowering of this coefficient, the Minister had also mentioned adjustments to the DPE in order to reduce the penalization of housing heated with electricity. Since January 1, 2025, G-rated accommodation is prohibited for rental. Such a revision of the primary energy conversion coefficient to 1.9 would allow 50% of poorly classified housing to improve their rating without carrying out additional work, thus ensuring the maintenance of many properties on the rental market. He wishes to be communicated to him the elements on which the determination of the primary energy coefficient set at 2.3 is based electricity. For the sake of consistency, he asks that a coefficient of 1 be applied to the DPE of homes heated with electricity.

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