MaPrimeRénov’: the government wants to cut this aid for energy renovation by 500 million euros

Tabled on January 20, a government amendment to the 2025 draft budget reduces the credits allocated to MaPrimeRénov’ by 500 million euros. On the other hand, the terms of the main aid for the energy renovation of housing do not change. The amendment will be examined by the Senate this Tuesday, January 21.

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MaPrimeRénov‘ is paying the price for the State’s budgetary constraints. Filed on Monday January 20, a amendment from the government to finance bill for 2025 “carries out credit cancellations” of the Territorial Cohesion mission “in order to achieve the public deficit target of 5.4% of GDP (gross domestic product) in 2025 set by the Prime Minister and to guarantee the sustainability of the trajectory of public finances”. This amendment cancels in particular 534 million euros of payment credits on program 135 “Urban planning, territories and housing improvement” of the Territorial Cohesion mission. “The cancellations relating to program 135 relate in particular to the National Housing Agency (Anah), which distributes MaPrimeRénov’”the main aid to energy renovation housing, specifies this text. “The amendment proposes to reduce 500 million euros the credits allocated to MaPrimeRénov’»initially set at 2.3 billion euros, deciphers a ministerial source from Capital.

A lesser stroke than the 700 million euros mentioned last weekend by Le Parisien, a sign that the interministerial negotiations, notably between Bercy and Housing, have resulted in a sort of compromise. This government amendment still needs to be adopted by the Senate this Tuesday, January 21, during the examination of the credits of the PLF’s Territorial Cohesion mission, which will begin around 5 p.m.

No change to the terms of MaPrimeRénov’

A certainty, “there will be no no change in MaPrimeRénov’ settings»assures the same ministerial source. For the record, the Ministry of Housing had published at the beginning of December, at the last minute before the censorship of the Barnier government, a decree and order stabilizing the main terms of MaPrimeRénov’. Concretely, in 2025, you retain the possibility of carrying out single works, such as changing windows or insulating walls from the outside, by definition less expensive than “bouquets” of work. The exclusion of thermal strainers of the route per gesture is also postponed to January 1, 2026. In other words, housing classified F and G on the energy performance diagnosis (DPE) remains eligible for aid per gesture in 2025. Finally, the obligation to provide a DPE at the entrance to the course by gesture is postponed until January 1, 2026.

As for a split of MaPrimeRénov’ into twowith “large-scale” renovations, combining several types of work, which would remain within the scope of MaPrimeRénov’, and the single-stage renovations which would now be financed by energy saving certificates (EEC), it is a question of ‘A “beginning of reflection, which does not appear in the 2025 budget”specifies the Ministry of Housing.