Jobs at Wattify

It is clear that, if we want to prevent the climate crisis and protect our environment, we all need to radically transform our society. Technological innovations are an important component of this transformation process. In particular developments in the area of renewable energy production can help us to make the best use of existing limited natural resources. However, things are moving too slowly. Investments are dominated by international politics and large institutional investors. While sustainable and green, asset-oriented investments in large renewable energy plants (like Photovoltaic or Wind) have become a high-yield alternative to a system which, up to date, still excludes the interested and responsible individual impact investor. And this is despite increasing awareness and demonstration of public interest in environmental, social and governance issues (Friday for Future). By nature, renewable energy investments are long-term. In contrast to money-at-call or fixed-term deposits, individual investors cannot access their invested capital over a long period of time. Investments are thus relatively illiquid. Due to the size of the projects and the necessary due diligence, investments are still accessible only to professional investors with large ticket sizes. If at all accessible to the private market, facilitators and intermediaries retain a significant amount of fees and handling charges which reduces the ROI. Think about a world where individuals across the globe can make impact investments into energy assets starting at 1 EUR, and by doing so not only contribute to CO² reduction but are offered a fair and transparent return on investment, with lower handling fees and higher transparency and security than today. Thus the importance of “impact investors” who avail of more funds and support sustainable projects will increase in comparison to institutional investment funds. And all of this with one tap of a fingertip on their mobile phone!