Suspension of MaPrimeRénov: the government throws a cold shower

It took a while for the government to agree to confirm. On Tuesday morning, Le Parisien assured that MaPrimeRénov was preparing to be suspended this summer . This information worried and angered the construction sector, environmental activists, and homeowners alike. Officially, the government then explained that nothing had been decided and that it would make announcements "during June to better manage the influx of applications and detect fraudsters upstream." But the next day, Eric Lombard, the Minister of the Economy, spilled the beans to the Senate: "There is both a backlog at the moment and an excess of fraud [...], hence the suspension," which was to extend, we later learned, from July 1 to the end of September - work in condominiums was not affected.

The reasons given by the government are struggling to convince experts. "What we can say about fraud is that it exists, as it does every time public money is offered for aid," observes Danyel Dubreuil of the Cler energy transition network.