The consultation with stakeholders in the sector, which must end on Friday, endorses the transition from the energy transition tax credit to a premium conditioned by household income.

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Who will be eligible for energy transition aid? The debate is about to be finally settled. The consultation between the government and the actors of the energy renovation sector ends Friday, endorsing the "simplification" of existing devices. But this one is far from unanimous.

"Not the means of our ambitions"

Specifically, from 1 January 2020, an individual re-insulating his home will receive a premium whose amount will depend on his income and his family situation. The system, at first sight simpler than the energy transition tax credit, effectively excludes the most affluent households. And if the government claims to want to refocus the device on low-income households, professionals denounce, them, a drastic reduction of the envelope allocated.

"This is not a very small plane," annoys Jacques Chanut, president of the French federation of building. "We are talking about $ 1.8 billion, which was earmarked for the energy transition tax credit, [and will be] 300 or 400 million next year." It is understandable that there may be budgetary problems in our country. but we must try to be perhaps less moralistic in the discourse as long as we have not given ourselves the means of our ambitions ... "

"We think it's severe"

"The energy transition can not be done without the wealthiest French because they are the owners of housing," enrage another player in the sector, which also denounces a system of aid based on a multitude of criteria, and therefore still more complicated to understand than the previous one. "This is a major change for all French people," added Nicolas Moulin, CEO of Travaux Éco, a specialist in the support and financing of energy renovation, who deprives a part of households of aid is to get a ball in the foot.

"These amounts, we want them to be as high as possible, so that they are the most possible incentives and they promote your energy renovation", details the CEO. "Today the tax credit financed the energy renovation of all the French.Tomorrow, there are a number of French who will have nothing.I think it is severe.