Developing street wide approach for housing for collective switch of energy systems to heat pumps packaged modules

Introduction

Our LIFE Street HP Reno project aims to deploy collective purchasing approaches for energy systems replacement by heat pumps for individual homes at the scale of entire streets.

Stakeholder Engagement

For this, we want to work with all relevant stakeholders:

• Local authorities (cities), housing organizations, and residents to convince them of the advantages of the approach and to aggregate a maximum of demand, thereby making heat pumps buy-in schemes emerge.
• Installers and solution providers to involve them in the process and encourage them to develop adapted, packaged, prefabricated, and industrialized solutions that are less expensive, more qualitative, and include possible new services fitted to the ecological transition.

All of this should lead to a reduction in costs and to the mass deployment of heat pumps in renovation, as a lever for decarbonizing heat in existing housing.

Project Axes

We wish to work on three axes:

1. 1st Axis: Characterize and qualify the typologies of individual housing on the scale of entire streets to better target the buildings adapted to the collective purchase of heat pumps. This will be integrated into a deep renovation process in line with the energy efficiency and decarbonization objectives by 2050 (WP2).

2. 2nd Axis: Develop and make available to stakeholders a set of financing packages and the collective buy-in scheme contracts. This will be based on a consumer panel survey to better understand their expectations and on viable and widely replicable economic models (WP3).

3. 3rd Axis: Raise awareness among local authorities, installers, and solution providers, then conduct a marketing campaign among residents to trigger a viral effect. This should significantly increase interest in this approach and lead to the emergence of pilot/test projects that will provide feedback for future projects (WP4).