New DPE: 1 housing in 2 heated to electricity will gain an energy class from 2026

The new method of calculating the energy performance diagnosis will be less unfavorable to electric heating. Casam has quantified the consequences of this reform. Discover the main winners.

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The accommodation you owner will benefit will see its Energy performance diagnosis Improved in 2026, thanks to the new DPE calculation method recently announced by the Prime Minister? A calculation method supposed to penalize the Heated to electricity accommodationcompared to heating with gas, fuel oil or wood. Matignon clarified that 850,000 dwellings will come out of the status of thermal coland, which corresponds to the F and G notes on the DPE. Hello Watt, a company specializing in energy efficiency, immediately put into perspective the consequences of this reform, believing that 55% of DPEs will keep the same note and that, for those who will see their improved, it will go up only a notch.

In a study published this Tuesday, July 15, the company Casam – at the origin of a label for energy renovation professionals – estimates the number of main residences at seven million who will win a class on the DPE, thanks to its new method of calculation. Seven million, this still represents almost 23% of the total number of main residences in France, estimated at around 31 million by INSEE. And 91% of these seven million main residences, which will see the note of their Improved DPE of a notch, are heated to electricityunderlines Casam, who carried out his study on the basis of a sample of 9,105 DPE representative of the main residence park, thanks to the Open Data data provided by the Agency for the Ecological Transition (ADEME). In other words, “It is 47% of the heated to electricity dwellings that will win a class on the DPE on January 1, 2026”add Casam.

DPE: Your accommodation among the 850,000 that will leave the status of thermal coland in 2026?

2 years of respite for 50,000 F ÉPLES Rental

And “It is not only 100% heated goods to electricity that benefit from the reform”underlines the company. Faced with the rise in electricity prices in recent years, some households have opted for the installation of a wood or pellet stove, in addition to electric heating. A little over a third (34%) of them will see the DPE of their accommodation win an energy class, calculates Casam. Do you want to know if you will be part of these lucky ones? Casam has just set up a free simulator allowing each French to discover if their accommodation is concerned: https://actualise-ton-dpe.casam-pro.com/.

Still in terms of the winners of the reform, the company considers that 50,000 housing classified G and currently rented will be able to boast of a DPE F on January 1, 2026. “They will therefore benefit from two years of additional respite”compared to the gradual prohibition on the rental of thermal colanders, underlines Julien Besnard, at the head of Casam. Indeed, since January 1, 2025, if your accommodation is noted G, you can no longer reread it after the departure of your tenant, or when the renewal of the lease occurs, three years after its signature in the case of a bare rental. This prohibition will not strike the housing noted F until January 1, 2028.