current Market Issues

scale

The energy efficiency market is highly fragmented. The underlying value is created by the deployment of a series of energy efficiency measures that have their own investment characteristics and range in capital value from a few thousand pounds to several million. Individually they would generally be impossible to finance independently so the key is aggregation. Even aggregated in an individual building or facility may still not create a sufficient critical mass to make third party funding efficient. However, a portfolio of buildings or facilities under common ownership could easily reach the required critical mass.

long term funding

Energy efficiency investment generally has been badly impacted by the disruption in the market for long term debt finance. However, over and above this impact, energy efficiency investment faces a number of challenges relating to knowledge and complexity, both technically and financially. For projects to succeed, there needs to be a full and confident knowledge of the available savings and an agreed way of managing and sharing the project risks in order to create a financeable investment.

Financing can certainly be structured and made available, where projects meet these criteria. However, this market remains thinly served and lacking in liquidity.

At EZ FineAnts we therefore seek to provide knowledge and to develop innovative financing methods, based on the power of the many, specifically designed to support small-scale energy efficiency projects and to provide energy security for citizens. We aim to facilitate projects with attractive returns and no-hassle ways of execution.

Ultimately, we aim at making energy efficiency in the retail space self-sufficient and independant from institutional money or governement incentives. To establish true Grassroots Energy Efficiency Finance.