Communities, tradespeople, citizens, residents: working together to achieve fair and targeted electrification, without rebound effects
Challenge WorkshopSocial justice
2026-06-24 | 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM | Savigny Hall
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A workshop offered by WWF France
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Florent CHARDONNAL, WWF France
Elise BARBAULT
This workshop aims to explore the conditions for a fair, targeted, and inclusive electrification of energy uses, serving residents, artisans, and local authorities. Often perceived as costly or technocratic, electrification can nevertheless generate direct and tangible benefits: lower energy bills, improved comfort and air quality, creation of local jobs, and strengthening of local energy sovereignty.
Using concrete examples (housing, mobility, buildings, crafts), the workshop will explore a central question: which uses should be electrified as a priority, at what cost, and for what real gains? It will highlight the biggest levers for reducing fossil fuel consumption, while avoiding the rebound effect through an essential link with energy sobriety and efficiency.
The workshop will give a central place to local actors (residents, communities, craftsmen and SMEs) in order to show that the energy transition can carry other values than the sole climate objective.
Finally, the discussions will help to identify the conditions for accelerating equitable electrification: coherent development of renewable energies according to the territories, appropriate aid for a just transition, citizen ownership and promotion of local sectors.