ENERGIES DEMAIN

Their core work

Energies Demain is a Paris-based energy consultancy specialising in the economics and financing of residential building renovation. Their work sits at the intersection of energy efficiency policy, housing quality standards, and the financial mechanisms that make deep retrofits commercially viable. In both their H2020 projects they focused on the private housing stock — first on integrated technical renovation solutions (INNOVATE), then on originating the financing structures that unlock investment in energy-efficient retrofits (ORFEE). Their practical contribution to consortia is translating renovation ambition into bankable, scalable business models rather than conducting laboratory research.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Their two projects tell a clear story of moving up the value chain. Starting in 2017 as a consortium participant in INNOVATE, they worked on integrated technical solutions for ambitious housing renovation. By 2020 they had become a project coordinator with ORFEE, shifting focus from the technical delivery of retrofits to the financial origination side — how to structure, fund, and scale renovation investment. The keyword shift from no recorded terms in the earlier period to "quality of housing" and "energy-efficient renovation works" in the recent period suggests a sharper commercial focus on standards and market quality.

They are moving toward the financial and market-structuring end of the renovation value chain, making them an increasingly relevant partner for projects dealing with green finance instruments, renovation obligation policies, and investment mobilisation for building decarbonisation.

How they like to work

Energies Demain has demonstrated the ability to both lead and participate in multi-country consortia. Their coordination of ORFEE — a EUR 692,272 project — shows they can take on the administrative and intellectual leadership of a European project. With 24 unique partners across 11 countries for just two projects, they build broad, diverse networks rather than re-using the same small circle, which suggests an active role in consortium design and partnership brokering.

Despite only two H2020 projects, Energies Demain has engaged 24 distinct partners across 11 countries — a notably wide network for a small SME. Their geographic spread across Europe suggests deliberate international partnership building, likely driven by the pan-European nature of building renovation policy.

What sets them apart

Energies Demain occupies a specific niche that few SMEs hold: they combine deep knowledge of housing renovation with expertise in the financial instruments needed to fund it at scale. Most renovation-sector actors focus on either the technical delivery or the policy side; Energies Demain bridges both, and their progression to project coordinator confirms they have the institutional capacity to lead European initiatives. For a consortium targeting building decarbonisation, green finance, or renovation market development, they bring a commercially grounded perspective that pure research partners rarely offer.

Highlights from their portfolio

• ORFEE
  Their coordinator role on this 2020-2024 project (EUR 692,272) — focused on originating financing for energy-efficient retrofits — is the clearest signal of their strategic positioning at the finance-renovation interface and their capacity to lead multi-country European consortia.
• INNOVATE
  As an early participant (2017-2020) in a project targeting ambitious energy refurbishment of private housing, INNOVATE established their foundation in integrated renovation solutions before they moved into financing leadership.