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SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-24-001187 to Energea Portfolio 2 LLC (CIK 0001811470)

Energea Portfolio 2 LLC (CIK 0001811470)
Date: Jan. 30, 2024 · CIK: 0001811470 · Accession: 0000000000-24-001187

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United States securities and exchange commission logo January 30, 2024 Michael Silvestrini Co-Founder and Managing Partner Energea Portfolio 2 LLC 52 Main Street Chester, CT 06412 Re:Energea Portfolio 2 LLC Amendment No. 1 to Offering Statement on Form 1-A Filed January 9, 2024 File No. 024-12347 Dear Michael Silvestrini: We have reviewed your amended offering statement and have the following comment(s). Please respond to this letter by amending your offering statement and providing the requested information. If you do not believe a comment applies to your facts and circumstances or do not believe an amendment is appropriate, please tell us why in your response. After reviewing any amendment to your offering statement and the information you provide in response to this letter, we may have additional comments. Unless we note otherwise, any references to prior comments are to comments in our November 21, 2023 letter. Amendment no. 1 to Offering Statement on Form 1-A Cover Page 1.You mention under "Limited Right of Redemption" at page 49 and elsewhere in the offering circular a three-year hold period and additional restrictions on the ability to sell shares purchased in this offering. In light of these substantial limitations and the absence of liquidity which results from them, please prominently disclose in the first paragraph here that (1) there will be no market for the offered Class A Investor Shares; (2) purchasers of such shares cannot sell such shares except by offering them to the Manager via the Platform; (3) purchasers must hold them for at least three years before trying to sell them via the Platform; and (4) even after waiting three years to request the sale via the Platform, you may pause the sale of any such shares at the Manager's discretion based on its judgment about any "potential impact on the overall performance of the portfolio." At each place that you discuss redemption or possible sales of the shares by investors in the offering, also add cross-references to new risk factors which address all such risks and

FirstName LastNameMichael Silvestrini Comapany NameEnergea Portfolio 2 LLC January 30, 2024 Page 2 FirstName LastNameMichael Silvestrini Energea Portfolio 2 LLC January 30, 2024 Page 2 limitations on liquidity. Caution Regarding Forward-Looking Statements, page 1 2.Please revise to eliminate any suggestion that statements in your offering circular "are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws." See Securities Act Section 27A(b)(1)(C) and Section 27A(b)(2)(E). Risk Factors We may be subject to claims from our Class A Investors, page 8 3.Please revise this risk factor to eliminate all mitigating language. Instead, clearly explain that the Regulation A exemption may have been unavailable for prior sales not only because of the at-the-market prohibition in Securities Act Rule 251(d)(3)(ii) but also in light of the Rule 252(f)(2)(i) requirement that you update your financial statements after one year. Disclose the risk that you may be subject to related claims for rescission or damages if no other Securities Act exemption is available for those sales, and quantify in the revised risk factor the amount of securities you sold subsequent to the one-year anniversary of the qualification date for your prior Regulation A offering. 4.We note your response to prior comment 3 and reissue the comment. In this regard, we note your disclosure that the Offering Circular would permit the Company to sell up to $50 million of Class A Investor Shares, which is less than the $75 million limit. We also note disclosure on page 6 of the offering circular that you "[You Might Raise More than $50,000,000: Under Regulation A, the Company is allowed to raise a maximum of $75,000,000 in any rolling 12-month period. Should the Company raise the maximum offering amount, it might decide to raise more, in a subsequent rolling 12-month period, or pursuant to a private placement or other offering." Please revise to reconcile your disclosures and clarify the amount of securities that may be sold pursuant to this offering statement. Use of Proceeds, page 10 5.You state that the disclosure assumes the maximum offering amount of $50 million of Class A Investor Shares. Please revise to provide detailed disclosures based on various scenarios, such as interim offering sizes as well as the maximum offering size, and make clear that this is a best efforts offering with no minimum needed to close.

Separately discuss the intended uses for the "new" proceeds, and quantify the amounts you will source elsewhere as appropriate. It is insufficient to group together past expenses and distributions, which are not being paid from the current offering. In that regard, you indicate that the table shows uses "from inception through June 30, 2023." Please also provide estimated percentages of the proceeds from this offering that you plan on allocating to existing and anticipated projects. Specify the current projects to which net proceeds will be allocated as well as the estimated allocable amounts. If there are factors

FirstName LastNameMichael Silvestrini Comapany NameEnergea Portfolio 2 LLC January 30, 2024 Page 3 FirstName LastNameMichael Silvestrini Energea Portfolio 2 LLC January 30, 2024 Page 3 that may influence your estimated use of proceeds, please include these factors in this section and explain how these factors may influence the estimated uses. Distributions, page 31 6.Expand the disclosure to quantify the effective yield for each full year (including the year ended December 31, 2023) based on the amount of distributions to holders of Class A Investor Shares. Also, please revise the tabular presentation to add a caption to make clear that only distributions to such holders are included in the table. Calculating Distributions, page 32 7.At page 3, you state that any distributions are at the "the sole discretion of the Manager." But you suggest at page 32 that Class A investors "Receive a priority distribution of cash flow each month which results in a 7% IRR." Define "IRR" at first usage, and disclose how many months your Class A investors received a return of 7% or more during each of the past three years. Insofar as the monthly distributions will vary and depend on the Company's cashflow and the Manager's discretion and in light of the historical rates of return, it is unclear what basis you have for suggesting at page 2 that your investors have the "right" to receive a 7% rate of return plus 70% of any additional cash flow. Please also include a risk factor discussing the uncertainty of investors receiving any distributions and their lack of any recourse if none is paid. Management Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Result of Operation Past Operating Results, page 34 8.Please expand your discussion of operating results to provide an analysis of the changes in revenue and significant components of portfolio operating expenses, projects operating expenses and other income(expenses) for the periods presented. Refer to requirements in Item 9(a)2 of Form 1-A. Directors, Executive Officers, and Significant Employees Business Experience, page 36 9.Please expand the biographical sketch for Michael Silvestrini to clarify his role with Energea Portfolio 2 LLC. Also, consistent with the disclosure under "Other Solar Energy Funds," disclose in his sketch that he performs the same duties in similar capacities at the other Energea entities which have filed Regulation A offerings with the Commission, naming the entities and the status of any current offerings by any Energea entity Limited Right of Redemption, page 48 10.The mandatory three-year hold period is disclosed only in this section. In addition to the new disclosure to be added to the cover page, properly emphasize this aspect of the offering where appropriate and also include corresponding risk factor disclosure.

FirstName LastNameMichael Silvestrini Comapany NameEnergea Portfolio 2 LLC January 30, 2024 Page 4 FirstName LastNameMichael Silvestrini Energea Portfolio 2 LLC January 30, 2024 Page 4 11.Revise to explain the reference to "the fixed share price at the time of the redemption request," including how investors / shareholders can ascertain what this fixed price would be at the time of a desired redemption request, prior to the five percent reduction from the prospective resale price. As for the suggestion that investors have an "option to divest," state explicitly if true that there is no redemption "right" and that it is within the Manager's discretion to deny any such request, meaning that there would be effectively no option to divest. 12.Revise to clarify the maximum time period during which you may "pause" the sales of investor shares. Also, state whether you may pause the sales even after the three-year holding period has expired. If the sales before or after the end of the holding period can be paused indefinitely with no recourse for investors attempting to resell their shares, it does not appear that they have a bona fide "right" or "option" to resell. 13.You state that you could pause sales to "prioritize the sale of natural shares during periods where selling investor shares could potentially impact the overall performance of the portfolio. Such situations may arise when capital is required to complete a project, and selling shares would cause construction delays." Revise the disclosure in this section to •explain the reference to "natural shares"; •clarify what criteria would be used to determine that the resales would "potentially impact the overall performance of the portfolio;" •disclose who makes such determinations; •state how long the decisionmaker has to reach such a determination and how investors would be notified; and •explain how and why resales "would cause construction delays." 14.Provide similar detailed information with regard to the potentially suspended or limited sales of shares you reference during "periods of extreme economic uncertainty or sudden downturns." Also, revise to provide examples of what could constitute such periods. 15.Because the Manager need not take any action it believes "would be adverse to the interests of the Company, itself or its other Investors," the Manager apparently has complete discretion to reject any redemption request. If the Manager in practice has absolute discretion to make such a finding and to reject any request, please state this clearly at the outset of this section and revise the caption accordingly. If you believe that is not the case, revise to explain why. 16.You state that purchases pursuant to a redemption request are priced as "determined by the Financial Model." However, the glossary at page 68 defines Financial Model as "The financial model prepared by the Manager for each Project, projecting all the costs and distributions of the Project." Insofar as you have multiple projects, the pricing protocol for redemptions is unclear. Also, you state at page 28, that "[a]s of the date of this offering circular, the Company holds 11 Projects."

Please revise the related disclosure to identify all the projects in which you have invested as of the latest practicable date. Also, revise this section to explain how the model

FirstName LastNameMichael Silvestrini Comapany NameEnergea Portfolio 2 LLC January 30, 2024 Page 5 FirstName LastName Michael Silvestrini Energea Portfolio 2 LLC January 30, 2024 Page 5 prepared by the Manager for each project is used to obtain a fixed redemption price at redemption time. Financial Statements Notes to Financial Statement, page 61 17.Please provide a breakdown of the Property and Equipment by name of projects owned as at the end of the periods presented in notes to the Financial Statements 18.In response to comment 17, you indicate that you recognize revenue for the equipment rental when the customer is invoiced and the operations and maintenance revenue when the work is completed. Please expand your revenue recognition policy to include these revenue streams.

19.We note your responses to comments 17 and 18 that you will wait to make certain changes in your audited FY 2023 financial statements. Please make these changes in your interim financial statements for the period ended September 30, 2023. Please contact Joanna Lam at 202-551-3476, Staff Accountant, or Kimberly Calder, Assistant Chief Accountant, at 202-551-3701 if you have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related matters. Please contact Cheryl Brown, Staff Attorney, at 202- 551-3905 or Irene Barberena-Meissner, Staff Attorney, at 202-551-6548 with any other questions. Sincerely, Division of Corporation Finance Office of Energy & Transportation cc: David H. Roberts, Esq.

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United States securities and exchange commission logo
January 30, 2024
Michael Silvestrini
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Energea Portfolio 2 LLC
52 Main Street
Chester, CT 06412
Re:Energea Portfolio 2 LLC
Amendment No. 1 to Offering Statement on Form 1-A
Filed January 9, 2024
File No. 024-12347
Dear Michael Silvestrini:
            We have reviewed your amended offering statement and have the following comment(s).
            Please respond to this letter by amending your offering statement and providing the
requested information. If you do not believe a comment applies to your facts and circumstances
or do not believe an amendment is appropriate, please tell us why in your response.
            After reviewing any amendment to your offering statement and the information you
provide in response to this letter, we may have additional comments. Unless we note otherwise,
any references to prior comments are to comments in our November 21, 2023 letter.
Amendment no. 1 to Offering Statement on Form 1-A
Cover Page
1.You mention under "Limited Right of Redemption" at page 49 and elsewhere in the
offering circular a three-year hold period and additional restrictions on the ability to sell
shares purchased in this offering. In light of these substantial limitations and the absence
of liquidity which results from them, please prominently disclose in the first paragraph
here that (1) there will be no market for the offered Class A Investor Shares; (2)
purchasers of such shares cannot sell such shares except by offering them to the Manager
via the Platform; (3) purchasers must hold them for at least three years before trying to
sell them via the Platform; and (4) even after waiting three years to request the sale via the
Platform, you may pause the sale of any such shares at the Manager's discretion based on
its judgment about any "potential impact on the overall performance of the portfolio." At
each place that you discuss redemption or possible sales of the shares by investors in the
offering, also add cross-references to new risk factors which address all such risks and

 FirstName LastNameMichael Silvestrini
 Comapany NameEnergea Portfolio 2 LLC
 January 30, 2024 Page 2
 FirstName LastNameMichael Silvestrini
Energea Portfolio 2 LLC
January 30, 2024
Page 2
limitations on liquidity.
Caution Regarding Forward-Looking Statements, page 1
2.Please revise to eliminate any suggestion that statements in your offering circular "are
forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws." See
Securities Act Section 27A(b)(1)(C) and Section 27A(b)(2)(E).
Risk Factors
We may be subject to claims from our Class A Investors, page 8
3.Please revise this risk factor to eliminate all mitigating language. Instead, clearly explain
that the Regulation A exemption may have been unavailable for prior sales not only
because of the at-the-market prohibition in Securities Act Rule 251(d)(3)(ii) but also in
light of the Rule 252(f)(2)(i) requirement that you update your financial statements after
one year. Disclose the risk that you may be subject to related claims for rescission or
damages if no other Securities Act exemption is available for those sales, and quantify in
the revised risk factor the amount of securities you sold subsequent to the one-year
anniversary of the qualification date for your prior Regulation A offering.
4.We note your response to prior comment 3 and reissue the comment. In this regard, we
note your disclosure that the Offering Circular would permit the Company to sell up to
$50 million of Class A Investor Shares, which is less than the $75 million limit. We also
note disclosure on page 6 of the offering circular that you "[You Might Raise More than
$50,000,000: Under Regulation A, the Company is allowed to raise a maximum of
$75,000,000 in any rolling 12-month period. Should the Company raise the maximum
offering amount, it might decide to raise more, in a subsequent rolling 12-month period, or
pursuant to a private placement or other offering." Please revise to reconcile your
disclosures and clarify the amount of securities that may be sold pursuant to this offering
statement.
Use of Proceeds, page 10
5.You state that the disclosure assumes the maximum offering amount of $50 million of
Class A Investor Shares. Please revise to provide detailed disclosures based on various
scenarios, such as interim offering sizes as well as the maximum offering size, and make
clear that this is a best efforts offering with no minimum needed to close.

Separately discuss the intended uses for the "new" proceeds, and quantify the amounts
you will source elsewhere as appropriate. It is insufficient to group together past expenses
and distributions, which are not being paid from the current offering. In that regard, you
indicate that the table shows uses "from inception through June 30, 2023." Please also
provide estimated percentages of the proceeds from this offering that you plan on
allocating to existing and anticipated projects. Specify the current projects to which net
proceeds will be allocated as well as the estimated allocable amounts. If there are factors

 FirstName LastNameMichael Silvestrini
 Comapany NameEnergea Portfolio 2 LLC
 January 30, 2024 Page 3
 FirstName LastNameMichael Silvestrini
Energea Portfolio 2 LLC
January 30, 2024
Page 3
that may influence your estimated use of proceeds, please include these factors in this
section and explain how these factors may influence the estimated uses.
Distributions, page 31
6.Expand the disclosure to quantify the effective yield for each full year (including the year
ended December 31, 2023) based on the amount of distributions to holders of Class A
Investor Shares. Also, please revise the tabular presentation to add a caption to make clear
that only distributions to such holders are included in the table.
Calculating Distributions, page 32
7.At page 3, you state that any distributions are at the "the sole discretion of the Manager."
But you suggest at page 32 that Class A investors "Receive a priority distribution of cash
flow each month which results in a 7% IRR." Define "IRR" at first usage, and disclose
how many months your Class A investors received a return of 7% or more during each of
the past three years. Insofar as the monthly distributions will vary and depend on the
Company's cashflow and the Manager's discretion and in light of the historical rates of
return, it is unclear what basis you have for suggesting at page 2 that your investors have
the "right" to receive a 7% rate of return plus 70% of any additional cash flow. Please also
include a risk factor discussing the uncertainty of investors receiving any distributions and
their lack of any recourse if none is paid.
Management Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Result of Operation
Past Operating Results, page 34
8.Please expand your discussion of operating results to provide an analysis of the changes in
revenue and significant components of portfolio operating expenses, projects operating
expenses and other income(expenses) for the periods presented. Refer to requirements in
Item 9(a)2 of Form 1-A.
Directors, Executive Officers, and Significant Employees
Business Experience, page 36
9.Please expand the biographical sketch for Michael Silvestrini to clarify his role with
Energea Portfolio 2 LLC. Also, consistent with the disclosure under "Other Solar Energy
Funds," disclose in his sketch that he performs the same duties in similar capacities at the
other Energea entities which have filed Regulation A offerings with the Commission,
naming the entities and the status of any current offerings by any Energea entity
Limited Right of Redemption, page 48
10.The mandatory three-year hold period is disclosed only in this section. In addition to the
new disclosure to be added to the cover page, properly emphasize this aspect of the
offering where appropriate and also include corresponding risk factor disclosure.

 FirstName LastNameMichael Silvestrini
 Comapany NameEnergea Portfolio 2 LLC
 January 30, 2024 Page 4
 FirstName LastNameMichael Silvestrini
Energea Portfolio 2 LLC
January 30, 2024
Page 4
11.Revise to explain the reference to "the fixed share price at the time of the redemption
request," including how investors / shareholders can ascertain what this fixed price would
be at the time of a desired redemption request, prior to the five percent reduction from the
prospective resale price. As for the suggestion that investors have an "option to divest,"
state explicitly if true that there is no redemption "right" and that it is within the Manager's
discretion to deny any such request, meaning that there would be effectively no option to
divest.
12.Revise to clarify the maximum time period during which you may "pause" the sales of
investor shares. Also, state whether you may pause the sales even after the three-year
holding period has expired. If the sales before or after the end of the holding period can be
paused indefinitely with no recourse for investors attempting to resell their shares, it does
not appear that they have a bona fide "right" or "option" to resell.
13.You state that you could pause sales to "prioritize the sale of natural shares during periods
where selling investor shares could potentially impact the overall performance of the
portfolio. Such situations may arise when capital is required to complete a project, and
selling shares would cause construction delays." Revise the disclosure in this section to
•explain the reference to "natural shares";
•clarify what criteria would be used to determine that the resales would "potentially
impact the overall performance of the portfolio;"
•disclose who makes such determinations;
•state how long the decisionmaker has to reach such a determination and how
investors would be notified; and
•explain how and why resales "would cause construction delays."
14.Provide similar detailed information with regard to the potentially suspended or limited
sales of shares you reference during "periods of extreme economic uncertainty or sudden
downturns." Also, revise to provide examples of what could constitute such periods.
15.Because the Manager need not take any action it believes "would be adverse to the
interests of the Company, itself or its other Investors," the Manager apparently has
complete discretion to reject any redemption request. If the Manager in practice has
absolute discretion to make such a finding and to reject any request, please state this
clearly at the outset of this section and revise the caption accordingly. If you believe that
is not the case, revise to explain why.
16.You state that purchases pursuant to a redemption request are priced as "determined by the
Financial Model." However, the glossary at page 68 defines Financial Model as "The
financial model prepared by the Manager for each Project, projecting all the costs and
distributions of the Project." Insofar as you have multiple projects, the pricing protocol for
redemptions is unclear. Also, you state at page 28, that "[a]s of the date of this offering
circular, the Company holds 11 Projects."

Please revise the related disclosure to identify all the projects in which you have invested
as of the latest practicable date. Also, revise this section to explain how the model

 FirstName LastNameMichael Silvestrini
 Comapany NameEnergea Portfolio 2 LLC
 January 30, 2024 Page 5
 FirstName LastName
Michael Silvestrini
Energea Portfolio 2 LLC
January 30, 2024
Page 5
prepared by the Manager for each project is used to obtain a fixed redemption price at
redemption time.
Financial Statements
Notes to Financial Statement, page 61
17.Please provide a breakdown of the Property and Equipment by name of projects owned as
at the end of the periods presented in notes to the Financial Statements
18.In response to comment 17, you indicate that you recognize revenue for the equipment
rental when the customer is invoiced and the operations and maintenance revenue when
the work is completed. Please expand your revenue recognition policy to include these
revenue streams.

19.We note your responses to comments 17 and 18 that you will wait to make certain
changes in your audited FY 2023 financial statements. Please make these changes in your
interim financial statements for the period ended September 30, 2023.
            Please contact Joanna Lam at 202-551-3476, Staff Accountant, or Kimberly Calder,
Assistant Chief Accountant, at 202-551-3701 if you have questions regarding comments on the
financial statements and related matters. Please contact Cheryl Brown, Staff Attorney, at 202-
551-3905 or Irene Barberena-Meissner, Staff Attorney, at 202-551-6548 with any other
questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Energy & Transportation
cc:       David H. Roberts, Esq.