SEFI's mission is to promote, facilitate, and support increased investment in energy efficiency and renewable energy. SEFI will achieve this by informing and connecting investors, creating a stable environment to catalyze investment flows, and minimizing risk and uncertainty.
The enormous opportunities created for sustainable energy systems based on renewable energy and energy efficiency have scarcely been tapped. The reasons are not simply technological limitations or lower cost alternatives. Rather, investment falls short because of various market immaturity barriers such as non-standardized risks (both real and perceived), elevated transaction costs, policy uncertainty, and basic knowledge gaps in what renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies are, how they work, and whether they're reliable and financially viable.
In short, there is a clear disconnect between opportunity and mobilisation ? for the typical financier the learning curve for investing in sustainable energy is too long and too steep, the information costs too high.
SEFI aims to foster a sustainable energy finance community that brings together financiers, engages them to do jointly what they may have been reluctant or unable to do individually, and catalyses public-private alliances that together share costs and lower barriers to investment. SEFI derives its mandate from the necessity to support this community through a platform that bridges the gap between what are known as opportunities and are feared as barriers.
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