ABOUT TRIPLE-A
What?
Triple-A is an Interreg 2 Seas project, promoting cross border cooperation between 4 European countries:
- The Netherlands
- France
- Belgium
- The United Kingdom
It aims to accelerate the adoption of low-carbon technologies by homeowners and as such contributes to achieving the EU 2020 targets (20% cut in greenhouse gas emissions, 20% of energy from renewables, 20% increase in energy efficiency).
Triple-A started in January 2017 and will be finished in December 2020.
Why?
- In the 2 Seas region, the building sector accounts for approximately 35% of CO2 emissions.
- About 50% of the dwellings in the partner regions consists of single-family housing in the owner-occupied sector.
- Although there is an enormous potential to reduce CO2 emissions by stimulating homeowners to adopt low-carbon technologies, the current average renovation rate is just around 1%.
How?
Via a Triple-A method, which will be developed by local authorities in cooperation with their stakeholders. This method will be tested for housing retrofit projects in their own regions.
The Triple-A method will:
- Increase ‘Awareness’:
by making homeowners more conscious about the different low-carbon technologies available on the market and the related benefits. - Secure easy ‘Access:
by bringing low-carbon technologies closer to citizens in an attractive way, with the possibility to opt for the technologies that fit their own needs and financial means. - The awareness and easy access shall result in increased ‘Adoption’ with more use of low-carbon technologies in existing houses.
For whom?
- Local and Regional Authorities in the first place
- All stakeholders involved in the decision process of energy efficient retrofitting:
- Homeowners of single-houses
- SMEs (suppliers and installers of energy efficient technologies,…)
- Energy service companies
- Financial institutions
- Building federations
- Network clusters
- Knowledge institutions
- ...
- Homeowners of single-houses