{"id":4634,"date":"2015-10-08T12:19:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T12:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.renewableenergyworld.com\/articles\/2015\/10\/despite-oil-and-stock-market-crash-solar-sector-funding-up-in-q3-2015.html"},"modified":"2015-10-08T12:19:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T12:19:00","slug":"despite-oil-and-stock-market-crash-solar-sector-funding-up-in-q3-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/despite-oil-and-stock-market-crash-solar-sector-funding-up-in-q3-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite Oil and Stock Market Crash, Solar Sector Funding Up in Q3 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Total global corporate funding in the solar sector, including venture capital\/private equity (VC), debt financing, and public market financing raised by public companies, came to $6.2 billion, compared to $5.9 billion in Q2 2015, according to Mercom Capital Group\u2019s report on funding and merger and acquisition (M&amp;A) activity for the solar sector in the third quarter of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Raj Prabhu, CEO of Mercom Capital Group said in a release that Q3 was \u201ceventful\u201d especially regarding the equity markets.&nbsp; \u201cAlthough solar power demand continues to grow, solar stocks have made a complete U-turn in the last three months, affecting public market financing, which was down by about a billion dollars excluding IPOs,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>VC funding increased to $257 million in 15 deals, compared to $142 million in 24 deals in Q2 2015. Solar downstream companies continued to draw most of the VC investments with $114 million in seven deals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Total global corporate funding in the solar sector, including venture capital\/private equity (VC), debt financing, and public market financing raised by public companies, came to $6.2 billion, compared to $5.9 billion in Q2 2015, according to Mercom Capital Group&rsquo;s report on funding and merger and acquisition (M&amp;A) activity for the solar sector in the third quarter of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Raj Prabhu, CEO of Mercom Capital Group said in a release that Q3 was &ldquo;eventful&rdquo; especially regarding the equity markets.&nbsp; &ldquo;Although solar power demand continues to grow, solar stocks have made a complete U-turn in the last three months, affecting public market financing, which was down by about a billion dollars excluding IPOs,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n<p>VC funding increased to $257 million in 15 deals, compared to $142 million in 24 deals in Q2 2015. Solar downstream companies continued to draw most of the VC investments with $114 million in seven deals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":717,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[431,417,415,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/717"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4636,"href":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4634\/revisions\/4636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solarfactor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}