Energy suppliers will be asked more to finance the green transition. The provision for “energy savings certificates” (CEE), a private financing plan that offers aid to switch to an electric car or thermally renovate the house, will increase “approximately 27%” in 2026 to reach “more than eight billion euros,” the Minister of Ecological Transition, Monique Barbut, told parliamentarians this Friday, October 24.
Created in 2005, this system, based on the polluter pays principle, requires energy suppliers to finance actions to reduce energy consumption and improve energy efficiency. In exchange for granting a subsidy to a home or business to replace an oil boiler with a heat pump, the supplier obtains an EEC. Every four years you must prove that you have achieved the EEC objective set by the State.
A system based on private funds
Eager to move forward with the financing of the energy transition without further depleting its budget, the State resorts to this system based on private funds. Energy suppliers pass this aid on in part to bills or per liter of fuel.
In addition to public aid, some operations until now subsidized with state funds “will now be financed with resources from energy savings certificates”, so the effort made by the EEC should “increase globally by approximately 27% and go from six billion euros in 2025 to more than eight billion in 2026”, confirmed Minister Monique Barbut before the Sustainable Development Committee.
He explained that this increase will particularly benefit the MaPrimeRénov aid system for energy renewal and electric mobility, the Ecological Bonus for the purchase of a vehicle and Social Leasing, “essential systems for purchasing power.”
No credit reduction for MaPrimeRénov’
Questioned about MaPrimeRénov’, overwhelmed by demands, the delegate minister in charge of the Ecological Transition, Mathieu Lefèvre, stressed that “it is not a question of a reduction in credits” but of “a transfer of part of the financing” to the EECs.
The National Housing Agency (Anah), which distributes MaPrimeRénov aid, will have 3.5 billion euros in credits by 2026, of which 1.5 billion euros from the State, one billion euros from the EEC and 700 million euros in carbon quotas, complemented by the Anah treasury, according to a government source.
Highly anticipated by actors in the sector, the decree establishing the conditions of the VI period of the CEE for 2026-2030 will soon be published.
Source: BFM TV
