Are your energy efficiency projects competing with other capital budget projects for funding or being delayed due to lack of capital? Are you frustrated because decisionmakers may not appreciate the urgency of installing energy efficiency equipment or understand why this is an excellent business decision? If so, you will find this presentation particularly valuable.

This 60-minute interactive session focuses on using operating budgets as a potential “source of revenue" to pay for energy efficiency projects. The Cash Flow Opportunity (CFO) Calculator, recently developed by ENERGY STAR, is an interactive model built on a Microsoft Excel® platform. The calculator helps quantify the cost of delaying investment in upgrades by addressing three critical questions:

• How much new energy efficiency equipment can be purchased from the anticipated savings?
• Should this equipment purchase be financed now, or is it better to wait and use cash from a future budget?
• Is money being lost by waiting for a lower interest rate?

The CFO Calculator is designed so that managers who are not financial specialists can use it to make informed decisions, yet it is sophisticated enough to satisfy financial decisionmakers.

Who should participate?

Financial decisionmakers and facility managers in the public and private sectors, lending institutions, and energy service providers.

The CFO Calculator spreadsheet can be downloaded directly from:

http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=business.bus_financing

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