{"id":324397,"date":"2020-01-28T11:09:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T05:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=324397"},"modified":"2020-01-28T11:49:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T06:19:11","slug":"missing-spark-corporate-funding-for-battery-storagesmart-grid-energy-efficiency-companies-down-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/missing-spark-corporate-funding-for-battery-storagesmart-grid-energy-efficiency-companies-down-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing spark: Corporate funding for battery storage,smart grid, energy efficiency companies down in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At $2.3 billion, global VC funding that flowed into battery storage, smart grid and energy efficiency companies in 2019 was down 18% compared with $2.8 billion in 2018. <\/p>\n<p>Funding pattern <\/p>\n<p>According to a report by Mercom Capital, total corporate funding \u2014 including venture capital funding, public market and debt financing \u2014 in the battery storage, smart grid and energy efficiency sectors in 2019 was down by 22 per cent at $3.8 billion compared with $4.9 billion in 2018. <\/p>\n<p>In 2019, VC funding for battery storage companies increased by 103% to $1.7 billion in 32 deals compared with $850 million raised in 49 deals in 2018. This increase was primarily due to Northvolt\u2019s $1 billion deal in Q2 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At $2.3 billion, global VC funding that flowed into battery storage, smart grid and energy efficiency companies in 2019 was down 18% compared with $2.8 billion in 2018. Funding pattern According to a report by Mercom Capital, total corporate funding \u2014 including venture capital funding, public market and debt financing \u2014 in the battery storage, smart grid and energy efficiency sectors in 2019 was down by 22 per cent at $3.8 billion compared with $4.9 billion in 2018. In 2019, VC funding for battery storage companies increased by 103% to $1.7 billion in 32 deals compared with $850 million raised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}