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If you are looking at ways to fund your Net Zero project work, we can offer a host of funding options, to suit your situation, that can put these assets within financial reach, as an affordable alternative.
The CAPEX payment can be covered from £100,000 to over £10m. Many businesses do not have this amount of free cash, but they can still invest now, through a host of convenient funding arrangements.
These funding options include:
If we are the Clients energy broker, we can arrange with the energy supplier to add a small uplift onto the p/kWh rate they pay.
This generates a monthly revenue, which we use to repay a loan from a green funder. The loan is used to cover the upfront cost of the new asset.
Term can be over 5, 7, or 10 years.
Different energy suppliers have different maximum permissible uplifts ranging from 0.5p/kWh to 3p/kWh.
The uplift is calculated by dividing the Total Cost (inc. any funding costs and ongoing operation and maintenance costs) by the Annual Energy Volume times the desired Term.
If the calculated uplift is outside the above permissible range, then SCI is not an option for the Client.
We own and operate the asset on the Clients behalf, so it does not have to be declared on their balance sheet.
Can be used on all technologies, across multiple sites, with no minimum spend.
Traditional financing arrangement whereby the Client pays for the asset in monthly instalments and takes eventual ownership of the equipment at the end of an agreed fixed term.
They are responsible for its operation and maintenance from commissioning and handover unless a specific service contract is agreed.
The Client can pay a deposit if desired to reduce the monthly repayments.
Finance payments are paid to the Funding Bank*.
The asset will appear on their balance sheet.
Can be used on all technologies, across multiple sites, with no minimum spend but not intended for large spends, i.e. over ~£250k.
Same as HP but it is provided as a service with us owning and operating the asset on their behalf.
We guarantee an agreed level of asset availability over the term. It is the Clients responsibility to use the asset.
Finance payments are paid to us monthly.
Ongoing monitoring, maintenance, reporting and spare/replacement part costs are included in the service payments.
Contract has performance-related elements and can be treated as ‘off balance sheet.’
Can be used on all technologies, across multiple sites, with no minimum spend.
A long-term agreement between two parties, whereby one party generates the electricity typically via a renewable energy source and the other purchases the electricity to be used within their site at an agreed p/kWh rate.
This rate is below the current grid electricity rate and is fixed for the term (sometimes slightly incremented if over a long term) giving the Client certainty about the cost of energy generated by the asset.
If the asset does not generate then the Client pays nothing, so the onus is on us to properly operate and maintain the asset.
The asset does not have to be declared on their balance sheet.
Can be used on all technologies, across multiple sites, with no minimum or maximum spend.
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Consultus have been recognised as the UK’s most trusted energy consultancy and one of the UK’s leading Net Zero delivery partners and was awarded Consultancy of the Year (Large Customers) at the Energy Live News Awards 2021.
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