Project dates: 01. Jun 2020 - 31. May 2023
Objective
"The Efficient Equipment as a Service (eEaaS) program aims to develop and deploy new business models and a financial structure to enable the transition and facilitate the market adoption of energy efficient equiment-as-a-service in SMEs. The consortium participants (BASE, AGORIA, ANESE, Innoenergy) have been exploring and implementing eEaaS, focusing on financial, fiscal and legal challenges and solutions. They build on present frontrunner experience, attempt to solve barriers, ranging from asset value to shareholder and financial 3rd party management. Their unique expertise on financing, ESCOs, business needs when transitioning from selling products to selling services will enable investments roundtables and building pipeline of projects. eEaaS has two main components: a) mainstream the EE servitisation financial model to facilitate the access of SME to smart, high-energy efficient technologies and b) standardise a financing structure (for example ""sale-leaseback"" model). Past experience has indeed shown that a potential bottleneck for this type of models is the lack of liquidity, financial capacity or capacity to access competitive financing for the providers under conditions that do not hurdle the potential pipeline of servitisation projects. eEaaS model aims to overcome the barriers that have inhibited SMEs from investing in EE solutions as they compete with investment opportunities related to their core business, which are better understood by SMEs in terms of risks and rewards. Servitisation supports SME competitivity by using smart technologies for energy use measuring, supporting the digital economy. In addition it supports a circular economy approach by incentivising technology providers to make their equipment modular, with parts being reusable/recyclable since the ownership of the equipment is never transferred to the client."