The EU-funded project RENOVERTY fosters energy efficiency building upgrades in the energy poor households of Central and Eastern Europe, South-eastern Europe and Southern European countries. The project aims to deliver tools and resources to support local and regional actors to build and execute operational single or multi-household roadmaps for rural areas. It has been underway since 2022 and now in its closing stages. So much has happened:
Call for replication
RENOVERTY is now looking for for local actors and stakeholders interested in replicating tested solutions to reduce rural energy poverty — particularly through the renovation of energy-poor households. They are looking for municipalities, energy agencies, local action groups, NGOs and others to come forward to benefit from free support, exchange knowledge with others, and create impactful sustainable solutions and tailored to your region. You can learn more here as well as find out how to apply.
Rural Renovation Roadmaps
The Roadmaps have been developed in close collaboration with local action groups in seven regions throughout the EU. These roadmaps offer clear, practical guidance on technical, legislative, and financial options, simplifying the renovation process for energy-poor households in rural areas.
National Policy Briefs
Seven national policy briefs (written in the national languages of the six pilot regions) provide a focus on each region with identified barriers, opportunities and recommendations on how to support vulnerable households in rural areas to renovate their homes. The briefs are available here.
RENOVERTY will be active at EUSEW:
- Equitable and sustainable rural development: the role of the clean industrial deal (RENOVERTY) – EUSEW policy session, June 12, online and in person, 9:30 – 11:00 CEST.
- Affordable and energy-efficient homes for all: breaking barriers to affordable energy retrofits for vulnerable households (RENOVERTY) – EUSEW policy session, June 11, online, 16:30 – 18:00 CEST.
Let us know what you think of the project.
Energy in Demand - Sustainable Energy - Rod Janssen 
This has been a genuinely ground breaking and very necessary project, the recommendations from which have very sensibly been translated into seven national languages. But I suspect that there are many other , including non- Southern, European countries that could benefit from having just such practical guidance available in the vernacular languages.
I do recall being involved with earlier Commission- funded programmes on energy efficiency( noticeably on third party funding of industrial energy efficiency projects) where precisely this occurred, albeit when the EU had 15 rather than 27 members. But I am convinced that such an initiative would be just as valuable in this instance.
I’m so glad to get your comments on this project. This is how I feel about this project. I will definitely let the team know your comments. Thanks so much. And you are so right about how other countries could benefit from such practical guidance.