The Paris Council on Friday adopted a plan to fight energy poverty, which affects 77,000 people in the capital, including a fund to help light work or small equipment to reduce bills.
The capital will set up a local intervention service for energy control (Slime), a national program created in 2013 and already tested in 60 communities, to improve the coordination of actions against energy poverty and the detection of households concerned.
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It is an individualized support team that goes to the homes of households in a situation of fuel poverty, which supports them, which directs them towards the aid (...) to which they are entitled
", explained Dan Lert, deputy ( EELV) to the ecological transition, for which “
there is still a 20% rate of non-recourse to aid
” (Energy check, Housing Solidarity Fund, Parisian aid).
An average aid estimated between 1000 and 1500 euros
The City, which encourages the energy renovation of the private park through its Eco-renovate Paris program, will create an aid fund for light work or small equipment to help control energy consumption, for a targeted budget. of 400,000 euros per year, says Dan Lert. The average aid is estimated between 1000 and 1500 euros. About 5% of residents say they "
feel cold at home
" and pay their bills late, according to the elected official. The creation of a Parisian Energy Poverty Observatory "
will make it possible to identify these households
", he explains, highlighting the gap between the 43,000 Parisians helped against fuel poverty, to the tune of 9.6 million euros. per year, and the 77,000 people identified by INSEE.
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Some 12 million people in France are affected by this problem, i.e. 5.6 million households who live in thermal strainers and / or do not have the means to heat themselves properly, estimates the Abbé Pierre Foundation in a context of recent increases. energy prices.
