Frequently asked questions

Sunpeer is B2B software — an operating system for energy communities. Developers, municipalities and cooperatives use it to register an energy community with ANRE, allocate production to members, generate compliant invoices and report. Residents get a simple member app. We are a software provider, not an energy supplier.

The community organizer: residential developers building new complexes, municipalities running EU-funded community projects, and cooperatives or installers who want to offer community energy to their members. They pay a subscription; their residents use the platform.

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.

A new residential complex is automatically within one distribution zone (satisfying the legal requirement) and gives residents lower bills plus an ESG selling point. Municipalities receive EU grants (e.g. the European Energy Communities Facility, ~€45,000) to plan a community — Sunpeer is the software that operationalises that plan.

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.

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 from day one, giving us a 24–36 month first-mover window.

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 compliance and billing engine, sign our first ~10 communities (developers and 2–3 municipalities), recruit an energy-sector co-founder/advisor, and complete our first DSO integration. If you invest in climate 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.