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  • Helios Financing Solutions
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Best Financing Solution

Because property owners have their own unique situation and cash position, Helios provides a wide range of financing solutions to best suits their needs. Helios financing products are designed to overcome the two highest barriers to energy retrofits, i.e. lack of budget and lack of confidence in the savings.Take a short anonymous questionnaire to discover the best available financing option for your building. This should take you less than 10 minutes.
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Are you looking to make your building more energy efficient and/or are you likely to be required to do so?

Example: under California's Title 24.

YES

NO

Do you have a project that is already in the planning process?


YES

NO

Do you have your own cash available to pay for an energy efficiency retrofit?


YES

NO

Are you eligible for tax exempt financing?

Example: governments, schools, hospitals, economic development zones

YES

NO

Do you want a solution that requires less of your own time and effort, where the design, implementation and maintenance of the project is handled by a third party?


YES

NO

What is the estimated cost for your project?

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Select your state?

Is your property in an area where commercial PACE (property assessed clean energy) financing is available. Please note that New York City doesn't qualify for PACE.
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Recommended Financing Solution.

Not looking

If you have a high-performing building, congratulations. If you do not, you should consider looking into an energy efficiency retrofit to increase your property value. Helios can quickly analyze your property to create a preliminary business case for a retrofit, which you can often implement with no cash up front and with immediate reduction in your energy bills. Get started with a remote energy assessment using HELiOS Retrofit Explorer. [Button] or Contact us to learn more. [Link]

Project not ready

Through Helios, you can easily discover the energy savings potential of your building and create an initial business case. All you need to get started is to share a little information such as building type, address, gross floor area, and the annual energy use of the building. If you don't know the energy use, we will approximate it for you and provide an indicative retrofit project that can be refined as we learn more about your building. If your building data is in Energy Star Portfolio Manager, you can import it into Helios with just a few clicks and start the discovery.

With this data, we use the HELiOS Retrofit Explorer and other analytics to suggest potential energy efficiency measures and create a retrofit project. From there, Helios can help obtain the necessary energy audits required to prepare the project for financing.

Continue to determine your financing options.

Self Finance

You can finance the retrofit project yourself. Three notes:

1) While many building owners do have cash they could invest, it can still be very hard for a building manager to get that cash for a project due to competing demands for it. If this is the case, then one of the financing solutions Helios provides could solve the problem.

2) If you are going to finance the retrofit yourself, you may still want to be sure that you get the results that are projected. With HELiOS EE-Assure, we can help you obtain performance insurance to lock in your savings.

3) Depending on your own financial picture, you may want to consider a traditional commercial loan to fund part of the project cost.

HELiOS ESA™

You can fund the project through an ESA (efficiency services agreement), where a third party will design, implement and own the improvements for a fixed term (say 7 years) . You will pay the third party less than your current energy bill (say 90%), and you take no risk as to the energy performance of the project. After the term of the agreement, you can own the improvements outright and get the full advantage of the energy savings for the rest of the useful life (15-20 years).

HELiOS E-Lease™

Energy Efficiency Leases are traditional capital leases covering the entire energy retrofit project costs. The term of the lease is determined so that lease payments are less than the value of the energy savings from the retrofits.

HELiOS PACE™

PACE financing can fund up to 100% of project costs with a term of up to 20 years. In addition to energy efficiency measures, PACE can fund solar, water, seismic, and other aspects of retrofits. Contact Helios to find out more.

Traditional Loan

Building owner borrows the capital on its balance sheet to manage and implement the project.

Capital Lease

Capital leases offer fixed terms and monthly payments with zero money down. Nominal buy-out at the end of term. Can cover soft costs (design, build, O&M).

Operating Lease

Operating leases offer fixed payments, minimal or no upfront costs and purchase, return or re-lease options at the end of term. Payments are qualified as operating expenses and can be treated as off-balance sheet.

Tax Exempt Loan

You can finance your project through a tax exempt bond (for large projects). This is typically available for municipal, state or federal buildings, schools, hospitals, economic development zones, and non-profits.

Tax Exempt Capital Lease

You can finance your project through a tax exempt lease. This is typically available for municipal, state or federal buildings, schools, hospitals, economic development zones, and non-profits.

Other Financing Options.

Not looking

If you have a high-performing building, congratulations. If you do not, you should consider looking into an energy efficiency retrofit to increase your property value. Helios can quickly analyze your property to create a preliminary business case for a retrofit, which you can often implement with no cash up front and with immediate reduction in your energy bills. Get started with a remote energy assessment using HELiOS Retrofit Explorer. [Button] or Contact us to learn more. [Link]

Project not ready

Through Helios, you can easily discover the energy savings potential of your building and create an initial business case. All you need to get started is to share a little information such as building type, address, gross floor area, and the annual energy use of the building. If you don't know the energy use, we will approximate it for you and provide an indicative retrofit project that can be refined as we learn more about your building. If your building data is in Energy Star Portfolio Manager, you can import it into Helios with just a few clicks and start

the discovery.

With this data, we use the HELiOS Retrofit Explorer and other analytics to suggest potential energy efficiency measures and create a retrofit project. From there, Helios can help obtain the necessary energy audits required to prepare the project for financing.

Continue to determine your financing options.

Self Finance

You can finance the retrofit project yourself. Three notes:

1) While many building owners do have cash they could invest, it can still be very hard for a building manager to get that cash for a project due to competing demands for it. If this is the case, then one of the financing solutions Helios provides could solve the problem.

2) If you are going to finance the retrofit yourself, you may still want to be sure that you get the results that are projected. With HELiOS EE-Assure, we can help you obtain performance insurance to lock in your savings.

3) Depending on your own financial picture, you may want to consider a traditional commercial loan to fund part of the project cost.

HELiOS ESA™

You can fund the project through an ESA (efficiency services agreement), where a third party will design, implement and own the improvements for a fixed term (say 7 years) . You will pay the third party less than your current energy bill (say 90%), and you take no risk as to the energy performance of the project. After the term of the agreement, you can own the improvements outright and get the full advantage of the energy savings for the rest of the useful life (15-20 years).

HELiOS E-Lease™

Energy Efficiency Leases are traditional capital leases covering the entire energy retrofit project costs. The term of the lease is determined so that lease payments are less than the value of the energy savings from the retrofits.

HELiOS PACE™

PACE financing can fund up to 100% of project costs with a term of up to 20 years. In addition to energy efficiency measures, PACE can fund solar, water, seismic, and other aspects of retrofits. Contact Helios to find out more.

Traditional Loan

Building owner borrows the capital on its balance sheet to manage and implement the project.

Capital Lease

Capital leases offer fixed terms and monthly payments with zero money down. Nominal buy-out at the end of term. Can cover soft costs (design, build, O&M).

Operating Lease

Operating leases offer fixed payments, minimal or no upfront costs and purchase, return or re-lease options at the end of term. Payments are qualified as operating expenses and can be treated as off-balance sheet.

Tax Exempt Loan

You can finance your project through a tax exempt bond (for large projects). This is typically available for municipal, state or federal buildings, schools, hospitals, economic development zones, and non-profits.

Tax Exempt Capital Lease

You can finance your project through a tax exempt lease. This is typically available for municipal, state or federal buildings, schools, hospitals, economic development zones, and non-profits.

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