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Unergy Opens its First Subsidiary in Europe to Strengthen its Positions in Market

The start-up is seeking to reach out to private and individual investors, with the promise of a low-risk investment capable of guaranteeing an internal rate of return (IRR) of at least 7% per year.

October 09, 2023. By News Bureau

Unergy announces the opening of its first subsidiary in Europe to strengthen its positions in the French, British, Spanish, Dutch and Swiss markets.

The start-up is seeking to reach out to private and individual investors, with the promise of a low-risk investment capable of guaranteeing an internal rate of return (IRR) of at least 7% per year.

With the ambition to facilitate the financing of renewable energies in countries with the right natural conditions but lacking liquidity, Unergy has set up an innovative model of mini-solar farms, accompanied by a high-profitability and low-risk financial protocol to raise the capital needed for their construction and operation.

Unergy splits up assets to enable anyone to become an investor with a stake as low as 500 USD, while monitoring their performance in real time and with complete transparency.

While crowdfunding for renewable energies has been strongly developing over the past ten years and is now booming in Europe, Unergy's proposal is something special: the start-up is able to guarantee an unrivalled profitability of between 7% and 10% per year, where European players show 7% in 5 years.

Together, all these conditions enable Unergy to optimize the production capacity of its mini-farms, to control the costs related to operation and maintenance, including insurance, and to anticipate their minimum yield over a period of 20 to 30 years. This allows the company to deliver on the promise of exceptional profitability at low risk.

"We know that Europe has many crowdfunding projects for renewable energy and we do not intend to compete with them. What we want is to provide a new alternative where everyone can find their interest!” Eduardo Ospina, CEO, co-founder of Unergy, and one of the leaders of Innovation Under 35 at MIT. "The energy transition must take place all over the world, but unfortunately not all countries have the same means to finance it. To address this issue, we have designed a model capable of appealing to investors, that offers both guarantees and attractive profitability, and impacting both the planet and the populations of the countries where our projects are located," he continues.

The start-up currently has a portfolio of more than 50 mini-farm projects to finance, located mainly in Colombia and Brazil, and plans to reach 300 projects by 2024. Each project requires an initial investment of about 1 million US dollars (930 thousand euros) and brings in, through the sale of energy, between 150,000 USD and 180,000 USD in net profits per year.

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