You invest in the Renewables Fund by buying a $25 Panel from an operating solar site in our portfolio. A Panel is a share in the Renewables Fund, which finances solar projects, but it does not represent an ownership stake in a specific solar site. Your Panel investment is added to your Rooftop Dashboard to help you understand and monitor your impact.

Your funds are combined with other investor’s via the Renewables Fund. User funds are deployed to a Global South solar developer. We lend funds to a developer in the form of a five year debt note.

The money you lent to the Renewables Fund is used to purchase a debt note from a Global South solar developer. The developer uses it to support solar construction and operations. Right now, we simply lend funds to a developer who we know is already building high impact solar – however, in the future we will condition lending on building solar projects that meet our impact criteria.

The developer we work with already has a portfolio of operating solar projects across the Global South. These projects generate carbon free electricity and sell it to a power user at a profit. The developer uses these funds to repay their debt, which is how we are able to pay you back in installments starting one month after you invest.

Repayments are deposited in your Renewables.org account balance, where they may be withdrawn via PayPal or reinvested in even more solar. Your first installment is issued exactly one month after you invest. You continue to get repaid over sixty monthly installments. If all goes to plan you’ll be fully repaid for the initial investment five years after your first investment.