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Enerterre – fight against energy poverty through participatory integration workshops
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About this good practice
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Cost: 200 000€ (from 2011 to 2015)
Animation of the system: 3 500€/Worksite
326 persons have done about 12,500 EMO from 2012 to 2017 (EMO is the unit of measurement of Enerterre Local Exchange Trade System. 1 EMO is equal to 1 hour spent)
Evidence of success
From 2012 to 2017: 126 families have been met and 60 worksites have been done.
Around 326 persons (adding up beneficiaries and volunteers) participated to the 60 worksites for a total of 12,500 EMO.
An economic analysis compared the cost of Enerterre building sites with similar work carried out in a conventional manner (hiring professionals only). From 2012 to 2017, the theoretical cost amounted to more than €300,000, whereas solidarity inputs of volunteers was appraised at more than €150,000.
Potential for learning or transfer
The mix between the participatory approach, the alternative finance (LETS) and the use of ecological solutions for energy efficiency in housing is a very innovative model that should provide inspiration to many local communities.
Enerterre is currently the topic of an Erasmus+ project aiming at Enerterre’s system dissemination across Europe through flexible spin-offs of Enerterre scheme. The adaptation of the model is being tested in Greece by the Mediterranean Center of Environment, Spain by Taph Taph and Italy by NET and ANCTC associations.
The assumption is that Enerterre model whereby citizens help each other to renovate their homes and leading to more social cohesion can be implemented anywhere, as long as Enerterre objectives are met: provide a support to households who are in a situation of energy poverty, promote mutual help and solidarity through shared and accompanied self-rehabilitation and favour the use of local and natural materials.
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Enerterre
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