MOULINS Platform
Background
Moulins Habitat, social housing company of the City of Moulins ( 03 ), manages a stock of about 4 000 flats distributed around the whole of Moulins's conglomeration. About 50 % of dwellings are on communal heating systems (network of heat, urban heating system and collective boiler rooms). Heating costs are thus directly managed by Moulins Habitat which, in turn, charges its tenants, including costs relating to regulation, maintenance and energy supply. These monthly expenses are, thus, updated every year according to variations in the costs of the energy and the consumption of the tenants.
Video material about the project
Extended version with regard to the platform implemented in Moulins, the material is only available in French. General video footage of SAVE@Work4Home is available here.
Energy Management
Concerning electricity and gas, the tenants choose their own supplier. That is not the case for the water; indeed, the consumption of water (sanitary warm water and drinking water) is charged by Moulins Habitat to the tenants.
The 50 % of dwellings outside the park of flats are equipped with an individual system of heater (electricity, gas and fuel) with the tenants settling directly their expenses with their energy supplier.
Motivation of Landlord
MOULINS HABITAT: a participative approach.
Moulins Habitat for several years joined in a process aimed at reducting energy consumption and thus maintenance costs for its stock. It sought to convince the tenants, the final consumers of the energy and the water, to save energy as they would be the main beneficiaries of the possible gains and the savings.
In this context, MOULINS HABITAT participates in the European program SAVE (SAVE@Work4Homes) which aims at developing tools for evaluation and measurement to allow the tenants to optimize and to better manage their energy consumption.
The current project is translated by three actions with outcomes for the tenants:
- A communications strategy to the tenants which depends on:
- The organization of meetings to debate the subject of sustainable development with both children and adults
- The development of an interactive document explaining the stakes in sustainable development and available on the company's Internet site.
- The display of the data on the dwelling's consumption via an internet access, with tools for comparison with regard to consumption in a standard flat.
- The implementation of an interactive system connecting the tenant and the landlord leading to energy savings, reduction in excessive consumption and, where necessary, outlining corrective action. This project is part of a bigger programme of rehabilitation of about 2 000 flats within the framework of the Project of Urban Renovation on the districts of Moulins-Sud and Yzeure-Le Plessis. Within the framework of this project, Moulins Habitat emphasized the sustainable development by favouring an energy reduction policy and education of tenants on energy efficiency.
In this context, the south districts of Moulins were thus appointed as main experimental site to achieve this project:
- Champins ( 242 expansion slots);
- Îlot Thonier ( 229 expansion slots);
- Champmilan ( 555 expansion slots);
- Nomazy ( 574 expansion slots).
Besides, Moulins Habitat also decided to widen its field of experiment to one hundred dwellings in the city center as far as they use individual gas heating contrary to the flats of Moulins-Sud which are served by the communal urban heating system.
Similarly, Moulins Habitat also equipped its head office to increase the awareness of its entire staff who, in turn, can then contribute to the education of the tenants.
Later, the objective of Moulins Habitat is to equip its whole stock to gather data on water and energy for the benefit of its tenants but also with the aim of being equipped with a real tool for supervision, management and evaluation.
Indeed, these last few years Moulins Habitat has worked very hard on the energy rehabilitation of its stock and to construct buildings with very high energy performance to address increased energy costs and the decline of the purchasing power of its tenants. In this context, the objective also was to be equipped with a tool to estimate the efficiency of the rehabilitations made, as well as the performance of the various types of construction.
