{"id":395796,"date":"2021-01-16T11:52:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T06:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=395796"},"modified":"2021-01-16T12:52:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T07:22:54","slug":"corporate-funding-to-solar-sector-grew-24-globally-in-2020-mercom-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/corporate-funding-to-solar-sector-grew-24-globally-in-2020-mercom-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate funding to solar sector grew 24% globally in 2020: Mercom Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Corporate funding to the solar sector globally, including venture capital (VC) private equity (PE) debt financing, and public market financing, totalled $14.5 billion in 2020 \u2014 a 24% increase compared to $11.7 billion in 2019, a Mercom Capital Group report said.<\/p>\n<p>The clean energy communication and consulting firm said in its annual report that during the first half of the fiscal, corporate funding was down 25% year-on- year, but recovery has been swift and broad, with corporate funding up 24% for the year. <\/p>\n<p>Publicly traded solar companies had an unprecedented year with solar ETF up 225% and 15 solar stocks up over 100% in the calendar year. Public market funding was also up with the help of several IPOs, and debt financing was up on the back of securitisation deals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corporate funding to the solar sector globally, including venture capital (VC) private equity (PE) debt financing, and public market financing, totalled $14.5 billion in 2020 \u2014 a 24% increase compared to $11.7 billion in 2019, a Mercom Capital Group report said. The clean energy communication and consulting firm said in its annual report that during the first half of the fiscal, corporate funding was down 25% year-on- year, but recovery has been swift and broad, with corporate funding up 24% for the year. Publicly traded solar companies had an unprecedented year with solar ETF up 225% and 15 solar stocks [&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":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395796","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=395796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}