Invest in renewable energies through crowdfunding
CVE, a B Corp accredited company, produces green electricity and gas using solar power, hydrogen and biogas, while having a positive impact. Since 2011, private investors have played a key role in our model, fostering local roots and the energy transition. Crowdfunding enables individuals and companies to support our projects, with three members of our Fundraising team dedicated to this initiative.
Investing in unlisted securities involves the risk of total or partial loss, as well as the risk of illiquidity. Potential investors are advised to consult their financial or tax advisor for further information.
What are the good reasons for investing in crowdfunding?
As part of the financing of its assets, CVE uses crowdfunding to enable any individual investor to:
Give meaning to your savings
This approach, which has been in place for several years, enables CVE to include private individuals in the financing of local energy transition. Investors can benefit from the economic benefits of the Group’s projects while contributing to a greener future. With an affordable entry ticket, everyone can participate. Several of our collections have received the “Financement participatif pour la croissance verte” label, created in 2017 by the French Ministry of Ecological Transition to support projects in favor of the energy and ecological transition.
Diversify your portfolio
Thanks to its low entry ticket, crowdfunding investment facilitates portfolio diversification.
Benefite from transparency and traceability
Crowdfunding platforms offer a high level of transparency regarding the use of funds and the progress of projects. Investors can track the impact of their investment in real time and receive regular updates, guaranteeing total traceability.
Invest in the Real Economy
Crowdfunding enables direct investment in meaningful assets rooted in the real economy. By investing with CVE, you support concrete projects and benefit from their positive impact on the environment and local communities.
“At Lendopolis, we are delighted to be able to work since 2021 for the development and growth of the CVE Group, in line with our values.”
Alexandre Bléry – Lendopolis
Our current crowdfunding campaign
Discover our current crowdfunding campaigns, where each project represents a unique opportunity to support the energy transition. Contribute to sustainable and innovative initiatives today.
How to invest in our crowdfunding campaigns?
To invest in crowdfunding:
- Select a crowdfunding campaign on our website or directly on the partner participatory financing platform’s website.
- Invest: follow the crowdfunding platform’s instructions for investing. This includes choosing the amount to invest and completing the necessary formalities online.
- Track your investment and reap the rewards: once you’ve invested, you can track the progress of your investment via the platform. Depending on the type of project, you can earn regular interest, or benefit from a capital gain at the end of the project.
“We had to find a way to involve everyone in the scale of the climate challenge. That’s why we created Lumo! CVE is a valuable ally in this process.
Olivier Houdaille – Lumo
Crowdfunding platform partners
CVE works with a number of crowdfunding platforms to meet the specific needs of its projects:
- Investor diversity: the selected platforms offer a diversity of investor communities, tailored to CVE projects.
- Specialization in renewable energies: some platforms specialize in financing renewable energies, in line with CVE’s mission.
- Territoriality of collections: when necessary, collections are structured to respect the territoriality of projects.
The professionalism and commitment of the platforms are essential to CVE, which ensures rigorous regulatory monitoring thanks to its dedicated teams and its membership of “Financement Participatif France”.
All our partner platforms are registered with ORIAS and hold the necessary approvals for participative financing, controlled by the AMF (“Autorité des Marchés Financiers”) and ACPR (“Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution”) to ensure optimum security for investors and the group.
Our partners
Diversifying and varied participatory finance investment solutions
The investment solutions offered by CVE through crowdfunding are diversified and varied: it can be shares or bonds to finance the Group’s needs, or to finance projects directly. You can invest in the real, responsible economy by diversifying your assets with meaningful investments that have a positive impact on the environment and society.
In terms of financing, the Group offers both solutions for financing the Group’s development activities from a global perspective (“corporate” solutions), and solutions for financing specific projects (“infrastructure” solutions).
“Corporate” solutions
These solutions enable us to finance the CVE Group’s global needs. It is therefore a diversified investment across all our activities, multi-energy and multi-country, with the main aim of supporting the Group’s development.
“Infrastructure” solutions
The funds raised through these solutions are earmarked for clearly identified assets (e.g. a solar power plant in Chile or a methanization unit in France) and complement bank financing (senior lenders) and funds (junior lenders).
They are used to refinance part of the equity originally provided by CVE for project development. By investing in these solutions, you directly finance our energy production infrastructures, whether in the construction or operating phase, thereby reducing the risks associated with development.
The private investor benefits from being involved at an advanced stage of the project, minimizing risk and having the assets themselves as collateral.
These investment solutions are securities issued by financial holding companies that ultimately own the project companies (SPVs) that own our infrastructures.
“It’s an honor to support CVE in financing its projects and development in France and Chile.”
Amaury Blais, Co-founder and Managing Director, Lendosphère
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