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Report on the state of play regarding solar PV energy communities and crowdfunding initiatives in North Macedonia
Report on the state of play regarding solar PV energy communities and crowdfunding initiatives in Greece
Report on the state of play regarding solar PV energy communities and crowdfunding initiatives in Croatia
Report on the state of play regarding solar PV energy communities and crowdfunding initiatives in Bulgaria
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SunSharing Executive summary of Guidebook Bulgaria
SunSharing Guidebook Greece
Executive Summary of the SunSharing Guidebook Croatia
Executive summary MKD
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Best practice examples
Report on the selected best practices in energy communities and crowdfunding initiatives in the SEE BEST PRACTICES IN SOLAR PV ENERGY COMMUNITIES BEST PRACTICES IN CROWDFUNDING FOR THE SOLAR PV PROJECTS
Genervest tool
Name of crowdfunding initiative
Genervest tool (crowd-investment tool)
Website: https://genervest.org/
Genervest was founded by Greenpeace Greece in 2019 to support the democratic and sustainable development of distributed clean energy systems and energy communities. The target of this tool is to give the people the power to stop climate change.
Website: https://genervest.org/
Genervest was founded by Greenpeace Greece in 2019 to support the democratic and sustainable development of distributed clean energy systems and energy communities. The target of this tool is to give the people the power to stop climate change.
Date of beginning and the end of campaign
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Number of investors
Citizens from Europe to fund small-scale RES community projects earning back a small interest rate.
Structure
Natural persons.
Location
Thebes, Greece.
Energy generator
The scope of this crowd investment was to support the implementation of a PV system; however, this investment did not obtain a license for installation due to the lack of electrical space and consequently was not completed.
Capacity of energy system
The capacity of the PV system that the campaign aimed to support was 80 kWp.
Energy-related activity
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Brief description
Hyperion focused on implementing a PV system with an 80 kWp nominal capacity in Thebes. To achieve this goal, Hyperion utilized a crowd investment tool called Genervest, developed by Greenpeace Greece. This tool enables citizens from Europe to fund small-scale RES community projects, while earning a small interest rate. Additionally, Hyperion obtained a small loan from Coopernico, an energy cooperative from Portugal.
Impact
- Citizens from the Europe could fund small-scale RES community projects using the Genervest tool
- Collaboration with other energy cooperatives to fund new RES community projects
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Genervest tool scheme
