{"id":570873,"date":"2023-04-20T12:06:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T06:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=570873"},"modified":"2023-04-20T12:07:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T06:37:09","slug":"corporate-funding-in-global-solar-sector-grows-11-per-cent-to-8-4-billion-in-jan-mar-mercom-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/corporate-funding-in-global-solar-sector-grows-11-per-cent-to-8-4-billion-in-jan-mar-mercom-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate funding in global solar sector grows 11 per cent to $8.4 billion in Jan-Mar: Mercom report"},"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. Corporate funding includes venture capital, debt and public market financing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 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,\u201d 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. \u201cThe 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,\u201d said Raj Prabhu, CEO of Mercom Capital Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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-570873","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\/570873","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}