CoPower Green Bonds are available to individual investors at a minimum of $5,000, pending a positive suitability assessment. Our current Green Bond investors include millennials making their first investment, grandparents investing on behalf of a grandchild and investment advisors at major institutions making purchases for clients.

CoPower Green Bonds are currently available in Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, Quebec and Nova Scotia and will be available in all Canadian provinces and territories soon - please sign up for our mailing list or contact us at investors@copower.me if you’d like to invest but CoPower Green Bonds are not yet available in your province of residence. Our investment products are currently not available outside of Canada.

The minimum investment amount in CoPower Green Bonds is $5,000. Thereafter, investors can purchase bonds in increments of $1,000.

You will start earning interest immediately on the date that your CoPower Green Bonds are issued. CoPower Green Bonds are issued on the first day of every month.

If you select a simple interest bond, you will receive quarterly interest payments deposited directly into your bank account, and principal will be repaid at maturity.

If you select a compounding interest bond, each quarterly interest distribution will be re-invested into green bonds, and you will then earn interest on all interest accrued, as well as on your principal investment. In this case, all principal and interest would be repaid at maturity.

CoPower originates loans through trusted channel partners: energy firms with specialized development expertise that manage the installation process. Each project loan follows a standard due diligence exercise and checklist and is structured by our team of experts, with oversight provided by the Chief Investment Officer and support from experienced legal counsel.

We maintain a standard due diligence checklist which is adapted to suit the needs of each individual loan. CoPower’s due diligence typically includes a review of both the sponsor and the project in question.

CoPower will review the sponsor’s corporate history, background, development expertise, management team, financial performance, liabilities, conflicts of interest and share capitalization.

In terms of the project, CoPower will review and analyze financial projections and assumptions, the project development schedule, suppliers of technology and feedstock, operations, maintenance regulatory considerations, environmental problems or claims and insurance. Details regarding our due diligence process can be found in the CoPower Green Bond Offering Memorandum.

The project loans underlying CoPower Green Bonds are secured by part of the project assets. We are also careful to invest in projects we believe to be of high quality: clean energy projects in North America, that produce a steady revenue stream. We lend to projects where there is a strong counterparty (ie. end payer), and we require certain security mechanisms, such as insurance, warranties, and debt-service reserve funds, to further mitigate risk for our investors.

Investment criteria, risks and risk mitigation procedures are outlined in the Green Bond offering memorandum. All investors should read the Offering Memorandum before investing in CoPower Green Bonds.

CoPower bears all issuing, management and administrative expenses of CoPower Green Bonds, so the projected return that we disclose is your expected net return. If you invest in CoPower Green Bonds directly via our platform there are no investor fees, period.

Note that if you are investing in CoPower Green Bonds via a registered account, a 0.5% annual capital raising fee has already been integrated into your interest rate. CoPower’s 5-Year registered account eligible bonds (Series B, Series F) offer a 4.5% annual interest rate, and CoPower’s 3-Year registered account eligible bonds (Series D, Series H) offer a 3% annual interest rate. Please inquire with your registered account custodian whether additional account administration fees, transfer fees or placement fees apply.

If you decide to provide payment by wire transfer or cheque instead of pre-authorized debit, a $25 processing fee may apply.

CoPower Green Bonds are eligible to be held in any registered account (ex. RRSP, TFSA, RESP, RRIF).

All CoPower clients can open a registered account at Olympia Trust, Questrade or Caldwell Securities and invest in CoPower Green Bonds. Certain administrative fees apply, and your financial institution may charge you fees for holding private placements on your behalf.

Check out our RRSP Calculator tool to find out if this route is right for you, or email investors@copower.me and one of our investment representatives would be happy to help you.

While the majority of investors choose to invest directly through CoPower’s platform, there are growing number of financial institutions, wealth managers and online investment brokerages that have successfully facilitated CoPower Green Bond investments for their clients. If you have an advisor get in touch with us and we’ll help you explore your options: investors@copower.me.

Questrade
All CoPower investors can open an account at Questrade to purchase or hold CoPower Green Bonds in registered or non-registered accounts.

Olympia Trust
All CoPower investors can open an account at Olympia Trust to purchase or hold CoPower Green Bonds in registered accounts.

It’s important to note that financial institutions each have different policies and possibly fees associated with holding private placements on your behalf. Ask your current account administrator about their private placement policies, or email investors@copower.me for more information.

Yes. CoPower Green Bonds can be purchased on a client’s behalf as a private placement. Please email investors@copower.me for more information.

Yes, you can purchase CoPower Green Bonds as a gift. How this works will depend on your relationship with the recipient of the gift, and whether they are a minor. Email investors@copower.me for more information.

Yes. CoPower Green Bonds may very well transfer with the holder’s estate, however, if you would like to name a specific beneficiary or beneficiaries please email investors@copower.me.

No, CoPower Green Bonds are private investments and are not traded on any public exchange and cannot be easily sold or traded on a secondary market. Investors should be prepared to hold their bonds to maturity.

The impact projections noted on this page are based on internal calculations performed by CoPower. Our calculations use data provided by project developers and governmental authorities from the previous calendar quarter end and rely on reasonably held assumptions of CoPower Inc.
CoPower Inc. makes no representation as to the accuracy of these figures - they are provided for the purpose of giving our investors a sense of the relative magnitude of the carbon impact of their investment. For more background on how we calculate our impact figures, please click here.