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Benefit from financial support of up to 50% of the investment cost!

Under Article 4(h) of the Law of 31 May 1999, as amended, establishing a fund for the protection of the environmental, municipal administrations, municipal associations and public bodies under the supervision of the municipalities may receive aid covering up to 50% of the investment cost for projects for the rational use of energy and the promotion of new and renewable energy sources. This financial aid is accessible to all municipalities, regardless of their commitment to the climate pact.

The obligated parties have a certain degree of freedom in their choice of energy efficiency measures. In order to guide their services, they can achieve energy savings either through standardised measures or specific measures. The standardised measures set out different example cases and set flat-rate energy saving values for the following families of measures:

•  Thermal envelope of buildings (walls, windows, roofs, slabs)
• Heat production
• Mechanical ventilation
• Household appliances
• Office equipment
• Lighting
• Transversal industrial techniques (motors, pumps, ventilation, compressed air, boilers, refrigeration)
• Management energy
• Transport (replacement of cars).

Energy efficiency measures not included in the catalogue of measures are to be considered as specific measures, which cannot be accounted for by the obligated parties in case of certain calculation principles and if no standardised measures are applicable.

In order to claim for energy efficiency measures, the obligated parties must demonstrate that they have played an incentive role in carrying out the measures. This means that they must support the consumer who carries out the measure in question with a direct contribution. For example, this incentive might take the form of advice, technical support or a financial contribution. These incentives must be provided before the consumer orders the measure in question.

The obligated parties are electricity and natural gas suppliers active in Luxembourg.
Please check the website of the Luxembourg Regulatory Institute for a complete list of these suppliers.

To initiate energy efficiency measures, the obligated parties are free to act themselves or to use third party implementers.

In principle, the energy savings that can be accounted for by the obligated parties can be in any energy carrier, including fuels, oil, natural gas and electricity.

In principle, all energy consumers are affected, whether households, businesses or the public sector.

The implementation of this obligation mechanism was born out of the desire to achieve the objectives set out in the national energy policy on energy efficiency more effectively.

This measure allows the obligated parties to seize the opportunity to expand their business models and offer energy services to consumers. The experiences of other EU Member States that have already implemented such a mechanism have shown that this approach, based on sound regulation, makes possible the subsequent deployment of energy efficiency measures.

Houses are used for decades; in terms of their maintenance and modernisation, one must therefore take a long-term view. Every owner who adopts a sustainable approach will invest in the building to maintain or increase its value. Some measures pay for themselves very quickly, others only after 10 or 20 years. In all cases, a properly executed energy retrofit contributes to reducing dependence on rising energy prices by reducing energy consumption for heating. And even if, in rented buildings, the savings in heating energy do not immediately compensate for any increase in rent, one must always take into consideration the fact that heating energy prices are constantly rising. In most cases, therefore, the measures pay off in the long term.

When calculating the cost of an energy modernisation, don't forget that many measures will have to be implemented sooner or later and that financial aid can be requested today.