Pay per unit of cooling or heating delivered.
We fund the plant, build it on your site, and operate it for the life of the contract, whether it is a new build or a replacement for one reaching the end of its life. Temperature, system efficiency and uptime are contractually guaranteed.
How C/HaaS works
Eight stages, delivered by a single team. The first five take you from first meeting to signed contract. The last three run for the life of the agreement. We carry the asset, the operational risk and the efficiency guarantee.
View all case studies →System design & costing
Site discovery, load profile, equipment selection and system design. Energy Partners overlays the thermal energy meter, sensor placement and data systems specification. All inputs feed the digital twin and the techno‑economic model.
Energy Partners engineering · 6–8 weeks
Digital twin
Before we quote a tariff we simulate the plant. Energy Partners builds a thermodynamic digital twin, calibrated with nine years of operating data and real OEM compressor curves. Validated against measured plants to within 2% accuracy.
Thermodynamic simulation · 95%+ accuracy
Techno‑economic model
Engineering and finance, together. Our engineering team feeds system design parameters, user requirements and contract length into the techno‑economic model, which outputs the fixed and variable components of the tariff together with a total lifecycle cost comparison. The result is approved internally by both our financiers and engineers before it is issued to you.
Three internal approvals
Project finance
Energy Partners funds the plant in full. Our equity is committed first and senior debt is arranged on top, with no exposure to the customer. Standard counterparty due diligence is performed on the offtaker, equivalent to a leasing review, but the agreement itself remains a service contract.
Off balance sheet · €110m+ deployed
C/HaaS contracting
Our standard agreement is pre‑approved by our financiers and legal counsel, then adapted to your site through site‑specific annexures. Terms run from 10 to 20 years, typically 15, with a purchase option available from year 6. It is structured against the IFRS 16 criteria as a service contract, so it sits in opex with no lease liability.
Term sheet to signature in ~10 weeks
Build & commission
Turnkey build by Energy Partners and approved contractors, with mechanical commissioning to peak CoP. We install and calibrate the billing meter, connect the data platform, run the performance acceptance test against the digital twin, and onboard the asset into 24/7 monitoring.
Acceptance test against the digital twin
Asset management
Three pillars across the contract life: predictive and preventative service and maintenance to ISO 55000; cooling/heating‑meter‑based billing on actual consumption; and 24/7 monitoring and optimisation from our central platform.
Contract life · 15+ years
Data + monitoring
Real‑time CoP per compressor, with efficiency drift detected within days rather than over years. Predictive analytics surface issues before they become failures. Adaptive control adjusts setpoints continuously. The customer dashboard shows live cooling/heating delivered, projected billing and audit‑ready SBTi reporting.
Live CoP · live invoicing · SBTi‑aligned
Tariff structure
One invoice a month. The availability fee and the maintenance fee are fixed. The cooling fee moves with the volume you take. We pay for the electricity the plant consumes and refund it on the same invoice. No capital line, and no repair bills.
Request a proposal →What sits underneath the tariff
Heating as a service
Industrial refrigeration is a heat‑pump cycle. It removes heat from your cooling load and rejects it on the warm side. Where a site needs both, we capture that heat and contract it in parallel with the cooling. Where a site needs heat only, we deliver the same model through a dedicated industrial heat pump, billed per kWh under the same tariff structure.
Request a proposal →Paired with cooling
On every site we have delivered to date, the warm-side heat from the refrigeration plant has been recovered for process loads. The heat is contracted alongside the cooling, with a parallel kWh thermal meter and the same fixed-plus-variable tariff structure.
Heating as a Service
For heating-only loads, we install and operate an industrial heat pump under the same agreement. You pay per kWh of heat delivered, with efficiency, availability and temperature compliance guaranteed against the contract.
One commercial model
Cooling and heating are sold under the same Energy Partners C/HaaS agreement, the same IFRS 16 service-contract structure, and the same purchase option. Whichever side leads, the operator faces a single counterparty and a single monthly invoice.
How is efficiency verified?
Our cooling meter was developed in 2015 by the Energy Partners engineering team, one of the first of its kind globally. Efficiency is a measured number, streamed to you and to us in real time.
Request a proposal →Your questions answered
Answers to the seven questions we are asked most often. Can’t find the answer to yours? Please send it to europe@energy-partners.eu.
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