Chandigarh, January 12, 2022 (22G TV) Artha Energy Resources (AER), India’s leading renewable energy solutions provider, today announced the launch of RenewShare, a renewable energy (RE) investment platform that enables fractional ownership of RE assets in India.
Unveiled as an autonomous investment platform – RenewShare caters to investors interested in diversifying their existing portfolio while being a part of the fast-growingRE landscape in India. The platform, during its launch, has already enlisted a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) with assets worth of Rs 7 crore and a nearly investment commitment of Rs 10 crore from investors with RE assets spread across 4 cities.
Animesh Damani, Founder and CEO, RenewShare, said, “With the launch of RenewShare, we will enable investors to enter an otherwise high-cap market, while driving an environmental impact through green energy adoption. While RE has an impressive growth story, access to viable investment opportunities in the sector for most investors is virtually non-existent. TheRE segment carries the tag of being an extremely expensive asset class to own and manage independently. We,as an aggregator aim to resolve this problem by facilitating to bring down the ticket size for investments”.
“With the initial total investment commitment of ₹10 Cr, the response from the investor circle has been overwhelming, which solidifies our belief in the huge potential and interest in the RE sector. Hence, we will facilitate over ₹200 crores worth of transactions per annum by FY 2024 and are confident to help investors capture 10% of Indian OPEX projects.We are motivated to continue developing the sector towards becoming a coveted investment avenue while highlighting its contribution towards mitigating climate change,” he added.
As an investor centric platform, RenewShare drives investments into the energy sector by developing RE as a lucrative asset class. It enlists thematic SPVs, wherein similar renewable energy projects in the wind and solar segment are combined after being thoroughly vetted by a team of experts. Investors have the choice and can pick a pool of SPVs with their preferred RE projects based on their risk appetite.
Identifying the gap in the RE investment sector, for rooftop and small-scale utility project financing, RenewSharewill will break the oligopoly created in the RE sector due to the high-ticket size of projects and facilitate bringing in the capital sustainably.
SPVs listed on RenewShare would initially require an investment of ₹20 lakhs from an investor. As a viable alternative to fixed income, the assets listed on the SPVs are filtered in a way to generate a 2x rate of return than the current prevailing long-term FD rates offered by leading Indian Banks.
The platform would later be made available to retail investors.The impact investment platform will facilitate multiple investors to co-invest within a large pool of projects but with lower counter-party risk.The investments made in an SPV is split across multiple RE assets, thus lowering the risk considerably.
