Why invest in renewable energy projects?

There are plenty of reasons why people decide to invest in renewable energy projects. 

Many people care about our planet and its future and therefore decide to invest to boost renewable energy transition and thus decrease CO2 emission.

For others, a reason to invest in renewable energy is energy independence. Renewable energy can be produced efficiently by any country and almost every city and even household which decreases our dependency on fossil fuel exporting countries and even centralized energy production as such. 

Others invest to make money. Renewable energy is the new normal, yes, it is not 100% clear which renewable energy source will dominate and will show the best returns, but the growth of the renewable industry is inevitable.

How can you invest in renewable energy projects?

The easiest and most efficient way is to invest in renewable energy via crowdfunding. 

Yes, there are many companies whose stock you can buy or invest in some green bonds, but for the majority of people, it is too complex and the impact of such investment is not clear, on the other hand, crowdfunding is easy to understand and invest, and you can start investing from as little as 100 euros and invest in actual projects. 

Via crowdfunding, you invest directly in particular renewable energy projects with a clear understanding of where it will be built, what its production capacity is, how much emissions it will offset, who will use that energy (maybe you), and so on. 

And more importantly, most crowdfunding projects are financed in the form of loans thus your returns are fixed and could be around 7%-9% p.a..

Bonds and stocks have many benefits but crowdfunding is a clear and direct investment in renewable energy production with fixed returns. 

How to evaluate investments in renewable energy?

There are around 50 crowdfunding platforms in  Europe that focus on sustainable development and the majority of them provide the possibility to invest in renewable energy projects, let’s review a few of them.

One of the biggest platforms in  France for sustainable investing is Enerfip. Via Enerfip people invested almost half a billion euros in sustainable projects making Europe greener and better while making 7.56% returns in 2024.

Lendosphere is another great platform from France on which 545 renewable energy projects for a total amount of 279 million euros were financed. The weighted average rate of return on Lendosphere was 6.95% in 2024.

Abundance is a sustainable crowdfunding platform from the UK via which you can support local communities by promoting sustainable development or renewable energy companies. On Abundance, 8000+ people have invested 150 million GBP into sustainable development.

Triodos Crowdfunding is owned by Triodos Bank and the platform helps raise funding for companies that focus on sustainable development. On Triodos Crowdfunding you can provide funding in the form of bonds or buy shares in companies.

Trine is an amazing platform from Sweden that allows investors to invest in green energy projects from developing countries! Thanks to Trine and its users 1 167 589 tons of CO2 were avoided while investors made +6% and invested more than 90 million euro.

Bettervest is a sustainable crowdfunding platform from Germany that allows people to invest in sustainable projects.

Thanks to Ecoligo 1,679,788 tonnes of CO2 savings were reached by investing more than 43 million in solar energy systems around the world with a 100% historic repayment rate.

Fundeen is a platform from Spain that makes our planet a better place to live by helping cofinance renewable energy power plants, till today 10 million euro has been raised to finance 19 power plants.

Ener2Crowd is an Italian sustainable crowdfunding platform on which people can make yields up to 10% by investing in sustainable companies and projects.

ZonnepanelenDelen is a platform from the Netherlands that helped produce 1.5 billion kWh by raising more than 100 million euros and 18,000 people to finance solar panel systems.

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