CrowdFundRES releases a series of reports and publicly downloadable documents. Click on the document to download it on your computer.
Results
Crowdfunding renewable energy - A practical guide
This eBook stems from the work, events and results carried out during the CrowdFundRES project and available on www.crowdfundres.eu. In particular, this document collects insights from the following project results: guidelines for crowdfunding platforms, guidelines for project developers, guidelines for investors and the report on policy recommendations.
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Report summarising supporting activities to crowdfunding platforms
This deliverable reports on the measures taken during the CrowdFundRES project to support new crowdfunding platforms and existing crowdfunding platforms that have expanded their activities to include renewable energy.
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Practical Experience with Applications of the Guidelines
The aim of this document is to compare the experiences of preparing and delivering the associated crowdfund raise in each of the cases studies carried out within the CrowdFundRES Project with the Developer and Platform Guidelines also drafted by the project and, where relevant, suggest additional insight that could be incorporated into the final guideline documents to be delivered by the end of the project (January 2018).
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Guidelines for Investors in Clean Energy Projects via Crowdfunding
Enabling investors to make well-informed decisions, reputable crowdfunding platforms try to present relevant information in a well-documented and comprehensive manner. This guide provides you with a non- exhaustive list of questions. The guide is structured in three parts: the first part presents questions to ask yourself, the second part questions to research or ask the crowdfunding website, the last part questions to research or ask the particular project you want to invest in.
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Guidelines for Renewable Energy Project Developers
This guide presents a series of questions that renewable energy developers should ask themselves and crowdfunding platforms in order to facilitate better understanding and decision-making before engaging in crowdfunding.
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Guidelines for Crowdfunding Platforms Interested in Hosting Renewable Projects
This guide presents a non-exhaustive series of questions that founders of crowdfunding platforms should ask themselves to facilitate better understanding and decision-making before launching a crowdfunding website for sustainable energy projects. It provides them with relevant information to proceed further.
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Policy recommendations on regulatory and market framework improvements for crowdfunding RES projects
The report “Policy recommendations on regulatory and market framework improvements for crowdfunding RES projects” collects the experiences gathered during the discussions and events organized in the framework of the CrowdFundRES project and presents a number of recommendations and measures to foster crowdfunding for renewable energies.
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Renewable Energy Crowdfunding Case Studies
This report contains case studies from leading renewable energy crowdfunding platforms in Europe providing a detailed view of how the platforms are set up, regulated and operate their business as well as an overview of individual projects that have raised funds on each platform.
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Beyond the borders: Renewable energy crowdfunding in Europe
The “Updated CrowdFundRES leaflet” describes the collaboration between Lumo and OneplanetCrowd, partners of the CrowdFundRES project, which joined forces in an international collaboration to overcome the issues related to cross-border crowdfunding. The leaflet contains valuable suggestions for EU regulators and renewable energy project developers to support a harmonised regulatory and market framework for further unleash the potential of crowdfunding for renewable energy projects.
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Proceedings of the European policy workshop
The aim of this document is to summarise the results of a workshop organised in Brussels on the 16th of February 2017 involving European policy makers, RES industry associations as well as representatives of RES crowdfunding platforms.
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Review of Crowdfunding Regulation & RES Market Developments
A document providing a review of crowdfunding regulation and the latest market developments focussing on the aspects most relevant to the application of crowdfunding for RES project development in the EU.
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Survey Results on Public Perceptions and the Views of Crowdfunding Platforms and Project Developers
This report presents the findings of three online surveys conducted in the second half of 2015 at the European level (and in several languages) regarding perceptions about crowdfunding in the renewables sector.
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Survey of Personal Investment Choices
The report presents the findings of an online survey conducted over Spring and Summer 2016 at the European level regarding characteristics of economic agent decision making in the crowdfunding marketplace for renewable energy projects.
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Six-monthly e-Newsletters
This document reports about the activities undertaken within the framework of Task 5.3 – Promotional Materials, Subtask 5.3.2 - e-Newsletters.
The e-Newsletter is a dissemination tool designed to keep the CrowdFundRES stakeholders updated on the progress of the project and its achievements.
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Best Practices eBook
The CrowdFundRES Best Practices eBook entitled “Crowdfunding Renewable Energy – A practical guide for Crowdfunding Platforms, Project Developers, Investors and Policy Makers” (ISBN 3-936338-48-5) represents a unique opportunity for the project consortium to share the key learnings from the experience gathered during the project and turn them into valuable advice to the main stakeholders involved in crowdfunding for renewable energy projects.
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Crowdfunding renewable energy projects: Guidelines for Investors, Project Developers and Crowdfunding Platforms
31 January 2018
The CrowdFundRES project has come to an end, but leaves a series of guidelines as legacy to [...] Read more