The advantages of the Strategic Projects Guarantee

  • Promotes the implementation of strategic industrial projects
  • Facilitates the implementation of financing
  • Offers a solution tailored to major industrial projects
  • Encourages economic benefits in France

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Our Strategic Project Guarantee solution

The essentials to know - domestic market

Provides project financing as well as corporate projects that contribute to developing key industrial sectors of the French economy.

- foreign market

Provides financing for projects that help secure supplies for key sectors of the French economy.

Eligible policyholders - domestic market

  • French or foreign company acting in the operation as a supplier, investor, operator, service provider, subcontractor, financier, customer or concessionaire

 

  • French and foreign credit institutions, finance companies, insurance and reinsurance companies, mutual societies and provident institutions

- foreign market

  • Company established in France which acts in the operation as a supplier, investor, operator, service provider, subcontractor, financier, customer or concessionaire

 

  • French and foreign credit institutions, finance companies, insurance and reinsurance companies, mutual societies and provident institutions

Conditions of the Strategic Projects Guarantee

The granting of GPS must be essential to the completion of the operation.

The transaction must represent an amount greater than €10 million.

The secured transaction must meet at least one of the following criteria:

  1. Sector essential to national security and the supply of energy resources and raw materials;
  2. Failure to carry out the operation would represent a risk for the national economy, a sector or an economic sector;
  3. Generate a competitive advantage for the country;
  4. Development of the activity of French companies;
  5. Penetration of a sectoral or geographic market with high growth potential.

Sustainable operations within the meaning of the European Taxonomy will be given a favourable view when examined by the Guarantee Commission.

Characteristics of the Strategic Projects Guarantee

Covered contract - domestic market

  • Loan granted by a French or foreign credit institution or other lender

- foreign market

  • Loan granted by a French or foreign credit institution or other lender

Risks covered

Non-payment for events causing a claim:

  • Policies
  • Catastrophic
  • Non-transfer
  • Commercial (insolvency or default of the debtor)

Guaranteed quota

80%

The insured must keep at his own expense a minimum of 5% of the non-guaranteed portion

Foreign currency financing

Euro, US Dollar and other strong currencies

They benefited from our offer

Cedric
GOARANT
VERKOR
Chief Financial Officer
Thank you to Bpifrance Assurance Export, which provides structural support alongside our banking partners. Verkor's teams are committed, with humility and determination, to contributing to France's reindustrialization and energy sovereignty!
Pascal
Pénicaud
ELYSE ENERGY
President
This funding demonstrates the confidence of our banking partners and the government in our industrial ambitions. Our projects are progressing, our partnerships are strengthening, and our financing is taking shape: we are building the foundations of a European sustainable fuels industry and a competitive, sovereign French sector rooted in local communities.

Find all the related documentation

(English version) Commercial Contract Notification

05/01/26 - 156,07 KB

(English version) Loan Agreement Notification

05/01/26 - 1,34 MB

Echéanciers des remboursements (crédit acheteur ou financier)

12/03/26 - 189,16 KB

Notification de contrat de prêt

27/01/26 - 378,00 KB

Conditions générales - Police GPS

04/06/25 - 446,81 KB

Conditions générales - Promesse GPS

04/06/25 - 174,37 KB

Formulaire de demande de Garantie des projets stratégiques

14/01/26 - 917,61 KB

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