The Government is committed to housing in residence to grant tax credits

July 13, 2005 energy policy Act gives the Cape for thirty years targets 4: ensure a competitive energy prices, preserve the health of the inhabitants and the environment, ensure social cohesion by providing access to energy for all, contribute to national energy independence. These quantified objectives are posted by the public authorities: halving global greenhouse gas emissions implies, by 2050, a division by 4 or 5 of emissions for developed but also to the production of 10 of the energy needs of the France from renewable energies.

Program Act contains already the measures for the achievement of the goals as the transposition of the European directive of 16 December 2002 on the energy performance of new buildings and, under certain conditions, of existing buildings. The new RT 2005 thermal regulations will implement the requirements for new buildings. Moreover, the device of energy saving certificates which will emerge this year has aims to mobilize stakeholders in the energy sector to energy conservation. These certificates will impose the sellers of energy a duty of economy over a period of three years. Existing tools in the regulation and taxation, this device leads to the creation of a market.

Tax credits

In coherence with the action of the State, Act also gives local authorities the possibility to authorize COS overruns (factor of land) up to 20 for construction incorporating renewable energies or the specific requirements of energy efficiency. Municipalities will now have to set an example by reducing their own drinks. The Government is committed to housing in residence to grant tax credits. Already in 2005, the Finance Act provided a tax credit for senior housing equipment aimed at two objectives: sustainable development and energy, with a multi-year ceiling of 8,000 euros for one person only to 16,000 euros for a couple.

The tax credit rate is 15 for expenditures for the acquisition of boiler low temperature of 25 for expenditures for the acquisition of condensing boilers, of materials of insulation and appliances of regulation of heating and 40 for equipment for the production of renewable energy as well as for heat pumps. Expenses billed to December 31, 2009, from the tax revenue of the year 2006, said the Ministry of economy, finance and industry, the rate of the tax credit will be increased and will be increased from 40 to 50 for production equipment using a renewable source of energy and heat pumps; from 25 to 40 for condensing boilers and thermal insulation materials, provided that they are installed in a dwelling completed before 1 January 1977 and that this installation is carried out no later than 31 December of the second year following the acquisition of housing.

To accelerate the development of renewable energies, the experts of the sector are experimenting with four other tracks: "increasing energy certificates requirements;" create a tax credit for companies providing heating and hot water benefits which favour renewable energy in their offer. create a funds from a levy on the traditional energy bills; achieve the same collection, but a system of Eco-heat, similar to that of eco-packaging.