DPE G: Heating bills 4 times higher than in well -insulated accommodation!

The G -thermal TOCKS Get energy invoices four times higher than those of goods classified A on the DPE, according to an INSEE study.

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Sébastien lives in an apartment of 120 square meters. Its electricity and gas bill does not exceed 730 euros per year. Camille lives in less than 80 square meters. However, his annual energy bill is silent … 3,000 euros. The explanation is due in three letters: DPE (Energy performance diagnosis). Sébastien’s accommodation is classified on the DPE, the best possible note, while Camille’s worse, G.

“The differences in energy needs per square meter, depending on the labels (DPE), are high. Although the accommodated accommodation is much larger than those classified G, energy expenditure of their occupants, to maintain them in standard thermal comfort, are on average four times lower ”notes INSEE, in a study published this Thursday, April 3. The occupants of housing noted F and E are not housed in better sign: the first must spend 2,500 euros per year on electricity and gas, to correctly heat an average area of ​​80 square meters, and the latter, 2,000 euros.

Many elderly people in thermal colanders

It is logically in these classified accommodation G, F or E, grouped under the term of “Thermal TOCKS“, That live almost three -quarters (71%) of some 5 million French households” vulnerable “on the energy level, according to INSEE. These are not people in a situation of Energy precariousnesscharacterized, among other things, by modest income, but of households whose energy expenditure linked to housing represent more than 9.2% of their income. Or the double of what half of French households spends which is neither in a situation of energy precariousness nor in a situation of energy vulnerability. The latter is defined by INSEE as “A more or less strong exposure of households at the risk of having to arbitrate their expenses, to the detriment of thermal comfort of their accommodation”.

Who are these “vulnerable” households? Half of them are made up of single people over the age of 60. First of all because more than half of them lies in housing noted E, F or G on the DPE. Then, single people have more modest income than the others, with an average of 1,960 euros per month, against an average monthly disposable income of 3,400 euros in mainland France. With a proportion of 15 %, the single -parent families are also much more affected by the energy vulnerability than other households, there too due to lower income.

Owner does not protect energy vulnerability

Moreover, “be owner of his accommodation does not protect energy vulnerability “18.3% of the owners occupying themselves in this situation, a little more than the tenants (16%), underlines the INSEE. And 74% of them live in thermal colanders. The energy renovation of their accommodation therefore represents “a major issue “ For them, recognizes INSEE.

Good news, three -quarters of vulnerable households on the energy level, and owners occupying thermal colanders, are eligible for taking charge of at least 60 % of the cost of their work by Maprimerenov ‘the main public help for the energy renovation of private housing, highlights INSEE. While recognizing that “The dependent remains may remain dissuasive”.