The RenovAction hackathon concluded on Wednesday, June 24, with an awards ceremony for the winners of the five challenges, the favorites from Ademe, Cerema, and IGN, and the overall winner of the hackathon. As a reminder,
five challenges were proposed by the Ministry for Ecological and Inclusive Transition , theMinistry of Territorial Cohesion , and ADEMEwith the support of 17 partners:Challenge 1: Measure the impact of renovation work on energy bills Challenge 2: Identify the pathways households take during renovation work
- Challenge 3: Evaluate the cost of household energy renovation work
- Challenge 4: Characterize the situation of building stocks (residential, commercial, public buildings, etc.) and their energy renovation dynamics
- Challenge 5: Integrate energy renovation into a more comprehensive approach to building rehabilitation
- 34 teams were formed to respond to the call for action on building energy renovation. The challenge winners will receive three months of GreenTech support, a prize of €500 for the challenge winners and €3,000 for the hackathon winner, in the form of billing for the project, and pre-selection for the next GreenTech Call for Expressions of Interest, subject to the right conditions (particularly the status of the project leader).
- For the first challenge, the SuivEnergies project, led by Alexandra Souptes, was selected. The SuivEnergies team rose to the challenge and will have the honor of seeing their results used by the DGALN (French National Directorate for Energy and Natural Resources) to implement more efficient energy bill policies.
Mon Coach Renov’, led by Charles-Antoine Guinard
, was also chosen for its solution to the second challenge. The project relies on data and Linky meters and primarily targets homes heated by electricity. It covers all the steps involved in supporting energy renovations, drawing on users’ actual energy consumption through the identification of overconsumption and the globalization of the work. For the third challenge, the Tribu Reno project, led by Mathieu Rochard, was selected as the hackathon winner. This project was chosen for the originality of its proposed solution, its differentiating value, which was to introduce the local authority as a trusted third party in the renovation process and the choice of service provider, and the possibility of mass procurement through the group purchasing process. For the fourth challenge, the jury selected the Rénov’Booster project, led by Pierre-Antoine Duffrene, which boasts several strengths: its attempt to characterize the housing stock using data, its integration of the idea of emulation among households who want to undertake a renovation project and can find similar renovations carried out nearby by other households, its integration of the actions of various stakeholders (households, professionals, and public stakeholders), its remarkable experience, and its open-source project. The winner of the fifth challenge is the Rénover pour tous project, led by Emmanuel Marx. This project aims to propose an innovative financing mechanism for efficient energy renovation of real estate by separating the value of the land and the value of the building. This project addresses all the benefits of energy renovation: an ecological benefit with the objective of high-performance renovation, an economic benefit with the development of an energy renovation market and also the stimulation of the real estate market, and a social benefit by allowing two categories of citizens to foster a meeting with an energy renovation project at its heart. Ms. Emmanuelle Wargon awarded Rénover Pour Tous the overall prize at the RenovAction hackathon, notably for its ability to offer an innovative incentive scheme enabling the mass adoption of energy renovations for vulnerable populations. Rénover Pour Tous offers an innovative financing mechanism for acquisition-renovation that helps young first-time buyers access property ownership and facilitates early renovation of their homes for low-income seniors. This project also won ADEME’s second “Coup de Cœur” award.
The IMOPE-URBS project, mapping, targeting, and dynamic monitoring of social housing, was a Cerema and IGN favorite. The RoofScape project, which aims to develop green roofs on Paris’s rooftops, was IGN’s second favorite. We would like to congratulate all the participants from all the teams who worked for nearly two weeks to propose solutions for developing energy-efficient building renovations.
