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FINANCING INSTALLATIONS

While building energy efficiency has the greatest energy savings potential, the main obstacle for businesses and homeowners lies in financing.

In the last few years, Rexel has multiplied initiatives to help them find the appropriate financing solutions for their projects.

ESTIMATING AND GUARANTEEING SAVINGS Convincing clients of the savings they could expect from imple- menting energy efficiency solu- tions, showing them the exist- ing subsidies and working closely with credit institutions in order to offer them affordable and tai- lored financing solutions are key to promoting energy efficiency technologies.

Economic and financial arguments are decisive in order to convince end-users, whether homeowners or businesses, of the relevance of energy efficiency solutions. They all want to know to what extent their investment will lower their bills, and how quickly. Beyond discussing installation technical performance, this is about selling energy savings. Today, installers have tools allowing them to simulate different equip- ment solutions and to estimate their results, while performing the building energy diagnosis. Audits conducted for businesses, which are even more complex, are also performed before estimating expected gains. But the best means of selling en- ergy savings is to guarantee them. This is why Rexel guarantees the solar energy production of the photovoltaic installations it sells, as part of its Energeasy Solar offer- ing promoting solar equipment,

90%

OF INSTALLERS EXPRESS

THE NEED FOR BETTER FINANCING SOLUTIONS

(Rexel - OpinionWay study, 2013)

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