2023-12-11 14:56:00
Bruno rents an apartment in Jodoigne. As he pays his energy bill, he would like to know whether his home is well insulated or not. Aerial thermography, he thinks, gives him the opportunity, as long as he can have access to the results. But this is not the case: the municipality told him that it was following the recommendations of the inBW by only transmitting the data collected to the owners.
“That’s rightconfirms Laurent Dauge, the general director of the intercommunale, we have actually recommended that municipalities provide this information exclusively to owners. That said, each municipality is free to give them to tenants, this must be examined on a case by case basis. But the result of thermography is a qualitative photograph of a thermal scene, you do not know how to measure heat loss; the objective is to see on a roof the places where we might redo insulation, renovation and this work is the responsibility of the owner of the property.”
As for the benefit of consulting these results for a tenant, particularly for their bill, it has not really been demonstrated, continues Laurent Dauge:
” We do not have here a precise measurement of the energy which is dissipated; you can very well have a measurement where the thermography shows certain weaknesses, this in no way indicates the quantity of energy that is lost, nor the impact on the tenants’ bill.”
And the general director concluded by emphasizing that if access had been systematically given to tenants, it would be the respect for the privacy of owners that would have been undermined.
In any case, the municipalities are therefore the depositaries of the results of the thermography, it is up to them to see how they wish to return them. The mayor of Jodoigne said he was prepared to respond to any requests that tenants might make in his locality.
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