(ETX Studio) – 38%, that’s the extent of the drop in the number of homes that require too much energy in Caen. The Calvados prefecture is the best representative of a new dynamic: there are fewer thermal strainers, according to an analysis published by SeLoger.com.
What is a thermal strainer? We are talking about real estate here. And this concerns these very energy-intensive homes due to poor insulation that lets heat escape through the windows or the door. Concretely, the energy consumption of these homes exceeds 330 kWh per square meter per year. In short, they are classified F or G by the Energy Performance Diagnosis (DPE). France has seven million dwellings that the law designates as “dwellings with excessive energy consumption”. More than six out of ten households living in a thermal strainer are tenants.
According to a SeLoger.com study, among cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants, the situation is improving all over the country, starting with Normandy where Caen has the largest drop in the number of homes that use too much energy, around -38% over one year. There are only 5% of ads offering housing with an excessively high energy bill. In Nice too, we are improving since the downward trend is estimated at -31%.
If Toulouse (-18%), Marseille (-13%) and Bordeaux (-1%) appear in this top 15, the majority of the cities constituting this ranking are located in a large northern half of the country. And that’s good news. Because a study developed by SeLoger.com, published on September 29, precisely specified that the cities where there was the greatest number of thermal strainers were in the northern half of France, Paris in the lead with an average energy consumption estimated at 237 kWh / m2 and per year. Saint-Denis followed (228 kWh / m2 per year), then Amiens (223 kWh / m2 per year). Besides the lack of sunshine, it is above all the aging of the housing stock that explains the difficulty for these dwellings to present an honorable DPE. 9% of Parisian homes on SeLoger.com are classified F. In Côte d’Or, the rate even drops to 10%.
Note that at the other end of the scale, Villeurbanne, in the Lyon metropolitan area, acts as a good student with an energy bill estimated at only 128 kWh / m2 per year.
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