Frequently asked questions

Sunpeer is B2B2C software — the compliance layer between Europe’s corporate green mandates and the physical grid. An anchor (a corporate, developer or municipality) uses it to register a renewable energy community with ANRE, allocate production to members, generate compliant invoices, and produce audit-ready proof of clean energy. Members get a simple app. We are a software provider, not an energy supplier.

The anchor who pays: first and foremost corporates and industrial sites with CSRD/RE100 obligations, then residential developers building new complexes, and municipalities running EU-funded community projects. They pay a subscription; the members of the community they anchor use the platform and get cheaper, verifiably clean energy.

A factory or large site, plus the buildings around it, becomes a legal renewable energy community. Sunpeer allocates the site’s (or a nearby producer’s) clean generation to members within the same distribution zone, and produces an audit-ready record of every shared kilowatt-hour. That lets the corporate decarbonise Scope 2 locally and touch Scope 3 across nearby suppliers and staff — with CSRD-grade proof rather than estimates.

CSRD requires large companies to report — and increasingly prove — clean energy across Scope 2 and 3, including their value chain. RE100 commits 400+ of the world’s largest firms to 100% renewable power. Both create mandated demand for traceable, local clean energy. Sunpeer turns that obligation into a running community and a verifiable data trail. Note: the EU Omnibus package delayed some CSRD timelines, but the direction — mandatory, audited clean-energy disclosure — is set.

No. Sunpeer is an IT platform. The energy stays within the community and the existing grid; we handle the compliance, the virtual allocation of production to members, and the billing. This keeps us out of the licensing burden that a supplier or marketplace would carry.

It is the Romanian ordinance adopted in November 2025 that, for the first time, recognises renewable energy communities in law and transposes the EU RED III directive. It creates the legal basis for a community of at least five members to produce, share and consume energy locally — the market Sunpeer serves.

The primary law (OUG 59/2025) is in force. ANRE is still finalising the secondary orders (registry, trading and billing rules). Our Phase 1 product — compliance and registration software — is useful today; the billing engine ships alongside the norms as they are finalised.

EU Directive 2024/1711 and RED III make energy sharing a right across the whole Union, so the same core product applies market by market. We prove the model in Romania — where the law is fresh and no competitor is localised — then expand across the CEE and the wider EU.

Sunpeer is a SaaS subscription of roughly €300–800 per community per month, plus a one-time setup fee, with an optional small per-member fee for larger communities. Pricing scales with community size and modules used.

Because the anchor has the budget and the deadline. A corporate with a CSRD/RE100 obligation, or a developer selling apartments, will pay for software that de-risks a legal requirement — one enterprise contract is worth roughly twenty neighbourhood cooperatives and is far easier to sell. Cooperatives and residents are the beneficiaries (the "2C" in B2B2C), not the ones who fund the platform.

Sunpeer takes metering data for the community, virtually allocates each producer’s output to members within the same distribution zone according to the community’s rules, and generates ANRE-compliant, RON- and VAT-correct invoices automatically — replacing spreadsheets and manual work.

Community billing needs metering data from the distribution operator (DSO). We integrate on a per-zone basis, starting with our first pilot zones in Romania, and fall back on standard consumption profiles where smart meters are not yet installed.

EU energy-community software players like Exnaton (Switzerland), Cleanwatts (Portugal) and Hive Power (Switzerland) exist, but none is present or localised in Romania/CEE. Utilities such as PPC and E.ON could add a feature, but they focus on their own large customer base, not on independent organizers — which is exactly our segment.

Two layers. First, local regulatory depth: ANRE registration, RON/VAT treatment, Romanian-language ANRE-format billing and DSO integrations — an EU entrant needs 12–18 months to localise; we build it native, giving a 24–36 month first-mover window. Second, the verification data: once a corporate’s audit trail and its members’ metering data live in Sunpeer, switching means re-auditing — that’s sticky, compounding data that a generic tool can’t replicate.

Pre-seed. Our marketing site and early-access capture are live at sunpeer.eu. We are pre-pilot on the product and raising to build the compliance and billing engine and land our first paying communities.

Yes — a €500K–1.5M pre-seed round to ship the verification and billing engine, sign our first corporate-anchored communities, recruit an energy-sector co-founder/advisor, and complete our first DSO integration in Romania. If you invest in climate, ESG-tech or CEE software, get in touch.

Yes. Sunpeer is built GDPR-first. We only collect what we need, never sell data, and store it securely. Communities and members can request access or deletion at any time.