Les 7 Vents

Les 7 vents is a cooperative providing integrated home renovation services (IHRS) in the territory of La Manche in France since 2001.
The organization was created in 1998 by opponents of a nuclear plant in Flamanville (La Manche), initially as an NGO spreading knowledge on renewable energies and
sustainable consumption. In 2001, they received support from the national agency ADEME to develop their information services on several subjects including home renovation, which led to the establishment of an advice model one-stop-shop in 2008 in partnership with ADEME and local and regional authorities; eventually expanding their services to energy audits and the elaboration of work scenarios in 2017.

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Since 2001, Les 7 vents provided general information to more than 45.000 homeowners, half of which had a meeting with an advisor and 5000 of which benefited from an audit. Les 7 vents also offers assistance to public and private entities for the renovation of tertiary buildings. The society is registered as a “collective interest cooperative” (SCIC), which contrary to the traditional statute of worker cooperative in France (SCOP), offers a greater margin for non-worker participation to the capital but comes with an obligation to provide a service of collective interest to the public.

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