What Is Energy As A Service?

What are the benefits of the EaaS model?

Energy as a Service is a good solution to any financial hurdles you run into when it comes to energy efficiency projects at your facility or facilities. EaaS allows you to move forward with an energy savings project with no upfront costs. The project will actually pay you with positive cash flow from the energy savings of the project. This means you don’t have to worry about incurring debt from your energy efficiency upgrades.

On the other hand, with a capital purchase, traditional finance, or lease option, the project is entered onto a company’s balance sheet as an asset and liability. This can show a reduction of cash or even make a negative impact by showing new debt that can take years to depreciate and capture back. Many companies just cannot show new debt on the books for building renovations, but save this for new equipment acquisitions or revenue-generating opportunities.

Here at WattLogic, we believe Energy as a Service is the most efficient financing option to achieving your energy saving goals with the highest amount of cost savings.

Energy as a Service allows you to increase safety and upgrade your facilities with numerous energy saving solutions, including LED Lighting, power monitoring, HVLS fans, energy storage, and solar energy, without any upfront costs. 

What is Energy as a Service and how does it work?

WattLogic’s Energy as a Service program is a turnkey approach that alleviates the common headaches of maintaining facility operations and offers numerous financial benefits. Instead of the normal procurement process of a budget request, now you can show EaaS is a fixed monthly subscription fee, as well as an operating expense, instead of having to recapture the asset through depreciation.

Energy as a Service is a service contract, instead of a financing or leasing agreement. It’s a similar concept to your cable agreement. The cable company provides you with a cable box and the product of cable service. If your cable box or router stops working or needs repairs the cable company will also “service” its product or provide repairs to make sure it is operating correctly. 

All companies enter into some sort of service agreement for a variety of services they need to run a company. Now with new accounting law changes that went into effect in January of 2019, energy saving products can have the same tax benefits of a service agreement.

Since ownership is not transferred until an agreed time at the end of the contract, this allows for a more flexible turnkey, a no-hassle solution that can be captured monthly rather than the depreciation of an expense over a period of time. This means not only no debt on the books, but you’ll also capture the expense during the time you are paying for it. 

The energy savings you will generate from the more efficient energy system will be greater than the payment, so this is like a double-dip. You do not need any new capital to cover the payments and you are able to expense the monthly payments as you pay them.