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Understanding uses to better control the energy costs of housing units

The Ecco Dom program aims to reduce energy consumption in French social housing overseas. Renoptim sets out to optimize summer comfort while reducing the use of air conditioning in apartments in metropolitan France.

The work of the Ecco Dom project - focused on French overseas departments and regions - contributes to Renoptim, both in terms of the methodology developed and certain outcomes that can be implemented in metropolitan France. The synergistic benefits of the two projects will serve the users of apartment buildings. Feedback from the Union Sociale pour l'Habitat (USH), a partner of this program, will also provide a source of information for considering new ways of improving summer comfort beyond the experiments already conducted.

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