Crowdfunding for Renewables – ESTIF exploring partnerships
Date: 31 Oct 2016Category: Solar Heat News
ESTIF is constantly engaging in a series of activities to explore alternative financing for our industry. As such, we have been recently in contact with the European Crowdfunding Network (ECN) – the association representing crowdfunding platforms across Europe. ECN has been working on a EU funded project to develop crowdfunding in the renewable energy sector. The project (www.crowdfundres.eu) has been so far engaging only with RES-electricity, but is now looking into ways to also cover renewable heating technologies.
ESTIF has been engaged as stakeholder in this project, and held bilateral meetings with ECN to explore future partnerships and cooperation opportunities. Today, crowdfunding is a very limited tool for solar thermal, mostly confined to community district heating systems. However, business models are constantly evolving, and new financing tools and future trends can always be interesting for the industry. ESTIF aim is to keep monitor those trends, and identify possible future opportunities for our industry.
Are you interested in crowdfunding for renewable energy projects? Do not hesitate to contact us!