You lend money to a small Luxembourg company that owns solar panels on two commercial roofs. It plans to pay you back over 15 years from what it earns selling the electricity, one of the safest income streams there is. If the panels or the power contracts underperform, payments can be late or lower, and you could lose money. Your bond is recorded as a token on the Liquid network, but it is designed to be an ordinary bond under financial law (this needs a legal opinion).
| Issuer | Two-Roof Solar S.à r.l. (fictional) |
| Amount raised | EUR 2,000,000 |
| Interest, term | 6.5% a year, fixed, for 15 years |
| Repayment | Interest paid each year, with all of your money repaid in one amount at the end |
| Minimum | EUR 500 (one token), after the selling bank's identity and appropriateness checks. Retail and professional investors have equal rights. |
| Paid in | EUR, to your bank account (A) |
| Late payments | A missed amount stays owed with interest and is paid first from later cash, so you still receive everything you are owed, just later. Owners get nothing meanwhile (A) |
| Security | Pledge over the company's shares, bank accounts and power contracts, held for all investors by a bondholder representative (A). It is the only debt, ahead of EUR 3.1M of owner money, so your capital is protected. A failing project's assets may be worth little. |
| Cash reserve | EUR 110,000, half of one yearly payment, set aside at the start |
| Fees for you | None planned; the company pays custody (A); your bank may charge its own |
Each payment is interest plus a growing part of your EUR 500 back. None of these amounts is guaranteed.
Only from selling electricity from the two roofs (each 3 MWp):
The hosts' shared holding company owns the company, so if the hosts struggle, both its main income and its owners' support weaken. Nobody else backs the payments: not STOKR, the selling bank, the state or the token itself.
All power then goes to the grid, and the state steps in through the premium where the hosts left off. Cash available after running costs and taxes falls by about a quarter at first and by more than a third by year 15.
| Cash available (EUR, model); payment due each year: EUR 212,706 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Plan | Hosts gone | Cover, hosts gone |
| 1 | 350,692 | 350,692 | 1.65x |
| 5 | 346,144 | 252,378 | 1.19x |
| 11 | 332,173 | 222,273 | 1.04x |
| 15 | 318,179 | 199,940 | 0.94x, paid |
A bond term (A) stops the owners taking money out in any year when cash available is below 1.01 times the payment due, so from year 9 cash builds up inside the company and covers the gap in years 13-15. In the model every payment is still made, from cash held back from the owners and with the reserve untouched, only if the premium is won and output stays near the central estimate. That is why the bond is issued only once the premium is won. With years of weak sunshine (P90), the reserve runs out and payments are late from year 14.
Worse things can happen: long breakdowns, much lower power prices, or several problems at once. Then payments could be late, missed or cut, and you could lose part or all of your money.
Raising the bond costs EUR 200,000 (8% of the amount: placement fee for the bank and STOKR, legal work, register and token set-up), counted in start-up costs. Running it costs about EUR 20,000 a year, paid before you are. Both are estimates (A).