{"id":570736,"date":"2023-04-20T09:19:59","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T03:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=570736"},"modified":"2023-04-20T09:43:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T04:13:39","slug":"corporate-funding-in-global-solar-sector-grows-11-to-8-4-bn-in-jan-mar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/corporate-funding-in-global-solar-sector-grows-11-to-8-4-bn-in-jan-mar\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate funding in global solar sector grows 11% to $8.4 bn in Jan-Mar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Corporate funding in the global solar sector increased 11 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y) to USD 8.4 billion in January-March period of 2023, according to a Mercom Capital report.<\/p>\n<p>Corporate funding includes venture capital, debt and public market financing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The investments in the solar sector bucked the trend in Q1 despite tough economic conditions. The Inflation Reduction Act in the US is a significant driver for investments in solar. The fundamentals are solid, driven by strong demand for the energy transition worldwide, especially in Europe and the United States,&#8221; said Raj Prabhu, CEO of Mercom Capital Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corporate funding in the global solar sector increased 11 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y) to USD 8.4 billion in January-March period of 2023, according to a Mercom Capital report. Corporate funding includes venture capital, debt and public market financing. &#8220;The investments in the solar sector bucked the trend in Q1 despite tough economic conditions. The Inflation Reduction Act in the US is a significant driver for investments in solar. The fundamentals are solid, driven by strong demand for the energy transition worldwide, especially in Europe and the United States,&#8221; said Raj Prabhu, CEO of Mercom Capital Group.<\/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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570736","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=570736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}