Abundance

Council-issued green bond enables residents to invest in solar farm

Warrington Borough Council's CMI aims to raise £1m, making it the second local authority to launch a green bond via ethical investment platform Abundance

Investment
25 August 2020

West Berkshire Council launches UK's first local government green bond

Green bond arranged by Abundance Investment aims to raise £1m from residents to fund solar panels on council buildings

Solar
16 July 2020

Abundance launches green social housing funding push

Affordable and supported living social housing scheme to incorporate solar panels, ground-source heat pumps, and water efficiency features

Investment
11 November 2019

SIMEC Atlantis eyes £7m funding push for tidal and waste-to-energy projects

Renewable energy developer unveils plans to launch latest five-year bond offer through peer-to-peer lending platform Abundance

Energy
06 August 2019

Bored of Brexit? Britons care more about plastic waste and air pollution, survey finds

Green issues dominate British public worries above Brexit, finds survey of 2,000 people

Policy
29 March 2019

Abundance closes record £7m investment for Orbital Marine Power project

Orbital Marine Power set to develop UK's first floating tidal stream turbine to go into commercial production

Marine
11 January 2019

Abundance's Bruce Davis: 'Green finance and clean growth go arm in arm'

Abundance founder pops in to the BusinessGreen studio to talk about crowdfunding, ISAs, whisky and his new role in the UK's Green Finance Taskforce

Investment
08 November 2017

Monnow Valley Biomass raises £1.4m in latest P2P investment offer

Second investment offer for portfolio of biomass boilers via Abundance's P2P platform sells out in record three days

Investment
11 October 2017

'Groundbreaking': Cornwall geothermal project seeks funds

The UK's first geothermal plant could come online as soon as 2020 - research suggests the technology could one day generate a fifth of the nation's power