REVERTER

The project REVERTER aims to reduce energy poverty in Europe by developing renovation roadmaps to do more with what we have, by focusing on the most cost and environmental effective renovation methods through an integrated assessment and co-creation, by working closely with all stakeholders and end-consumers in 4 pilot countries – Bulgaria, Greece, Latvia and Portugal. 9 roadmaps will be developed by addressing the poor energy efficiency of dwellings. The roadmaps will be tailor-made to the characteristics of the building stock, the characteristics of the vulnerable households and the climate conditions, to cover a sufficiently cohesive group of cases that will allow for a larger- scale rollout and replication of the proposed actions. The roadmaps will target the worst-performing homes first (“worst first” principle), will cope with split-incentive dilemmas and will address market, information and behavioural failures through the creation of "one-stop shops" (OSS) as defaults for the enrolment of vulnerable households in subsidised energy efficiency improvement programmes for buildings. The project will test the roadmaps by setting up a network of pilots in four European cities (Brezovo - Bulgaria, Athens - Greece, Riga - Latvia and Coimbra - Portugal) that cover different climate regions and socioeconomic conditions regarding age and size of buildings, owner-occupancy rates, percentage of multi-family houses and single-family houses, income, values and beliefs of the inhabitants, etc.According to recent Eurostat and other data for energy poverty across Europe, about 7% of the European citizens could not afford to adequately heat their homes, 6.4% reported arrears on utility bills, more than 16% spent a significantly high percentage of their income on energy costs, while, on the other hand, 14.6% presented abnormally low energy expenditure, as a result of their low incomes. Energy poverty is mainly connected with high energy prices, low household income and energy-inefficient buildings and appliances. Due to energy crisis in Europe, the importance of these factors has escalated due to the sharp price increase of prices (Eurostat) in the first half of 2022.