As alternative finance continues to gain popularity in Europe, crowdinvesting is coming into the mainstream. But what exactly is it? Find out more and learn about ecoligo’s use of crowdinvesting in its business model. An extended version of this article was originally posted on Climate KIC, as an interview with Kilian Rüfer. What is crowdinvesting? Crowdinvesting is when many investors finance a project, each making a small financial contribution in proportion to the total capital required. Over time, the investor receives the amount paid plus attractive interest in return, as a cash payment. This is the most important difference to…
Clean Energy Summit Africa – an insider’s view
Energy challenges, future technologies and developing markets: a few of the topics energy experts gathered at the Clean Energy Summit: Africa last month to discuss. Held in Accra, Ghana on the 4th and 5th of April, the event brought international companies, local developers and governing bodies together to debate the shape and direction of Africa’s renewable energy landscape today. We spoke with ecoligo CEO, Martin Baart, to find out more. Who attended the conference? What were the big ideas? Bringing together energy insiders from around the globe, a key virtue of the Clean Energy Summit was the insight it gave…