FINforGREENESCO
SOFTWARE as a Service (SaaS)
Financial Analytics & Financial Planning & Financial Management
Projects for Buildings: Energy Efficiency & Small-scale RES
FINforGREEN
What is the purpose of FINforGREENESCO?
To Improve the Business of ESCOs & Their Projects` Results, at a Substantial Costs Reduction.
How does FFG do this?
FFGESCO converts the engineering concepts into bankable projects, answering the questions:
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Can an energy-efficiency project be cost-effective, i.e., bankable?
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How to improve its risk-return profile?
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How to fund a project the best way to minimize the ESCO's resources and increase its profit while providing the Client's best service?
FFGESCO automates, facilitates, and speeds up informed & grounded decision-making to structure, finance, and implement the projects
FFGESCO optimizes ESCO's equity and loan exposures utilization planning and Management
FFGESCO De-risks projects and Optimizes the business performance of ESCO by:
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Substantial reduction of the transaction costs per Project: time, efforts, staff, outsourced financial services
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Preventing wrong financial decisions & more successful mitigation of the ESCO's financial risks
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ESCO executes more projects and generates more business because of the operations' optimization and better projects` planning
FFGESCO relieves and improves the ESCO's access to finance
FFGESCO Major Features
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The Software is developed for ESCOs and Energy Performance Contracting (EPC) Mechanism (Third-party Financing)
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Each Project may consist of one or more buildings (aggregation)
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FFGESCO is for both shallow and deep renovation projects
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Small-scale Renewables : On-site the buildings or Off-site
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The Software functionalities consider all the project stages until the investment & loan repayment: Project Financial Planning; Monitoring & Verification (M&V);Operation and Maintenance (O&M)
On what principles is based FFGESCO ?
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The Software quantifies/monetizes the energy savings and CO2 emissions cuts of the Project based on the ESCO's engineering solution/energy feasibility study* . On this base, FFGESCO prepares a Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA).
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Depends on each Project's specifics and risk-return profile, the Software supports selecting the best scheme for the Project's funding by combining different financial instruments: equity, interest-bearing debts, grants, etc.
*Note 1: The set of investment measures for reducing the energy consumption and CO2 emissions and/or RES installation).
FINforGREENESCO Major Functionalities
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FFG Converts the ESCO's engineering solution's technical parameters into financial reports.
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Prepares financial projections: Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow Statement for efficient and fast analysis: For the Project itself; For the ESCO; For the Client/Beneficiary
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Evaluates the bankability of the Project at two levels: of the Project itself with the determination of the most appropriate project duration and the optimal contract period (ESCO-Client) and the efficiency of the scheme for financing of the Project
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Prepares the financial plan of the Project (projections and ratios for the period of the Project's investment and loan repayment) for effective and fast decision making by the ESCO` Management
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With FFGESCO the user can generate a set of scenarios according to the Project's specifics and the ESCO's requirements (project term, profitability, own available funds, Client's risk profile, etc.) until identification the Best-Case Scenario for Financing, Implementation, Operation and Maintenance(O&M) of the Project
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FFGESCO prepares the Financial part of the Business Plan for applying for external financing(Interest Bearing Debt /Investment) if the ESCO needs such for a specific project
Time for Processing a Project
Time depends on the number of buildings and the set of investment measures per building. After training, the average processing time per Project with 1-2 buildings is around one hour.
FINforGREENESCO General Layout
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Input project and building data – the information is taken out/derived from:
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the official energy audit
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the energy audit/engineering solution prepared by ESCO
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Input financial & other data
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Processing of the input data - calculations, projections, scenarios
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Outputs: Analysis and Reports* Generation:
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Comprehensive Analytical Reports for the ESCO's analysts and financial Management
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Management reports - shorter and easily understandable by the ESCO's Management
Note 2: Type of Reports: Financial, Technical, and Risk Reports
FFGESCO Applications
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FFGESCO Basic – Single project analysis (Development of the analytical functionalities, based on the several modules – Technical, Investment, Financial, Cost-Benefit and Risk Analysis)
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FFGESCO Pro: Basic + RES off-site + Creditworthiness of the project participants + forfeiting options + incentives schemes + post-project impact on the project participants' financials.
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FFGESCO Premium: Pro + Verification of the project results + Monitoring of the Project until final investment repayment + Management of the portfolio of financed/realized projects
The BASIC version of FFGESCO is available. FFGESCO "PRO" and "PREMIUM" are under development.
Software Sales
FFGESCO is web-based Software as a Service (SaaS), i.e., it is easily accessible.
It can be used upon necessity on a subscription fee /per year/per user.
After payment of the subscription fee, the user has access to the Software in hours.
