Various paths were proposed for meeting the Factor 4 goals by 2050. Officially launched on 6 July 2007, the "Grenelle Environnement" brought the state and civil society together in order to define new actions for sustainable development in France. The Grenelle objectives for the residential sector were assessed by the expert group based on the findings of the Grenelle environmental conference; these are summarized.
In 2050 some 10 million residential housing units, or about 36% of housing stock at that date, would still not have received any large-scale energy upgrade. Even when pursued beyond 2020 the Grenelle objectives are not sufficient, and more ambitious goals must be set if the Factor 4 objective is to be attained in the residential sector by 2050. This would mean setting ambitious objectives for energy refurbishment and rehabilitation in existing commercial/institutional building stock. Four options offer ways to attain the Factor 4 objective:
- Option 1: accelerate the pace of energy refurbishment in existing residential and commercial building stock
- Option 2: raise the performance level to be achieved via energy refurbishment in existing buildings, for example, setting primary energy consumption at a level well below 50 kWh/m /year
- Option 3: ensure substantial new construction and positive-energy buildings, including an ambitious policy for deconstruction and rebuilding of existing residential and commercial buildings
- Option 4: recover residual energy produced by positive-energy buildings, on a building cluster scale.
The 2050 vision
How can each of these four options be translated into action? The visions elaborated below are built around two key parameters:
- The scale on which the positive energy concept is applied - building, complex or neighborhood,
- Proportion of transformation effort between existing stock and new buildings.
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