Maximizing and ensuring customer ROI

Facing budget constraints, facility managers must find cost-effective ways to make necessary investments to address aging and inefficient infrastructures. OpTerra specializes in a variety of financing and contracting solutions to enable investments in energy efficiency and onsite generation – at low or no upfront cost for our customers. We identify the current energy-related expense, design solutions that reduce that expense, and show customers how to use the achieved savings to finance the required investment.

As part of every energy project, we identify financing and incentive opportunities to help our customers achieve the best possible ROI. We have experience with securing financing and leveraging incentive programs that are most appropriate for public and private sector customers. Examples include:

• Bank loans
• Tax-exempt bonds and leases
• Utility incentives and on-bill loans
• Federal, state and local investment incentives and grants
• Power purchase agreements

Public sector markets

We help public sector facility owners fund capital improvements through existing budgets – without upfront funding – by arranging third-party financing or leveraging an existing financing vehicle. Through this approach, a facility owner enters into a long-term installment payment contract or lease purchase agreement for the evaluation, design, and installation of energy-conservation and onsite generation measures. We structure customer contracts that meet borrowing requirements, including a warranty on the energy measures and support for measurement and verification of energy savings.

Private sector markets

Many electric and gas utilities offer rebates to retail, commercial, and industrial customers that implement qualifying energy-saving projects. However, each utility has different rules and qualification methods that must be followed to qualify for the rebate. We have extensive experience helping our customers navigate these requirements and are skilled at qualifying efficiency measures for prescriptive, custom, and comprehensive utility incentives.