In Hungary, the largest energy consumers are buildings, accounting for 40% of the country's final energy consumption alone. Only with the large-scale renovation of the building sector – including especially the largest consumers: the residential buildings – will be possible to decrease the energy consumption significantly and reach the related Hungarian national and international targets. But how the scale of residential building renovations can be increased in the next period?
At the event, focus will be on looking for answers with professional presenters to the challenges related to the economic, financial, technical, social and consumer attitudes that we have to face today in order to renovate the building stock. What kind of tools and solutions are available to overcome these challenges, and what can be done by the specific (state, municipality, business, professional, financial, individual) stakeholders?
- At the conference the RenoHUb project and the so-called One-stop-shop (OSS) concept will be presented, which can have a key role in boosting residential energy efficiency renovations in the future. The main idea of this concept is to make energy renovations human-centred by covering the full service spectrum of the renovation in a one-stop-shop system. What kind of role can have the state, the municipalities, the specific professional organisations and the stakeholders dealing with the actual implementation? These issues will be explored.
- One-stop-shop models are already working in several European countries and are more and more widespread. At this conference of MEHI an innovative Dutch one-stop-shop project will be firstly introduced in Hungary, the REIMARKT, which is in actual operation since years.
- Renovations cannot happen without proper financing opportunities. Therefore the role and the offered solutions of the financial institutions will be explored.
- Practical examples of the possible motivations and tools of the municipalities to encourage the energy renovation of the building stock in a town or city will be also analysed.
- It is a challenge to develop a complex renovation program for family houses because they are fragmented. Therefore a new, innovative initiative will be introduced, which aims to use the community opportunities regarding implementation and financing of residential renovations.
In the closing Panel Discussion about the challenges, solutions and narratives of EE renovations, REBUS project results - such as the EPR document and good practices from the project and also from the City of Miskolc - will be introduced by Katalin Hall (BORA 94 Nonprofit Kft. Hungarian partner of the project) to strike up a conversation among the participants about key issues related to energy efficient (public) building renovation hindrances and their potential solutions (e.g. are municipalities prepared for the climate neutrality and within this for the renovation of buildings? What good examples are out there, worth to get familiar with? What is missing, what is still needed concerning legal, financial or awareness raising aspects to reach climate targets?)