Capital Dynamics Completes $282M Solar Fund
Capital dynamics, an international asset managing company announced July 10 that it completed its $282 million US Solar Energy Fund. The fund will allow the company to invest in U.S.-based solar...
View ArticleWhy The Solar Industry Needs Capital
In the past few years, the solar industry has been suffering from a lack of capital on both the equity and debt fronts. Despite remarkably high rates of return, tax equity investment still only...
View ArticleConfimed Shrinkage: Solar Venture Capital Funding
The amount of venture capital (VC)—early-stage funding with higher risks, but high potential returns—going to solar companies continues to shrink, according to a new report from Mercom Capital Group....
View ArticleRural Villages Benefit from Africa’s Solar Revolution
A solar project aimed at making women in Ghana both entrepreneurs and engineers will get rural parts of the African country on the grid. Women in the rural villages will be taught how to make small,...
View ArticleSolar Securitization: The Future
Every four minutes, a new solar photovoltaic system is installed in America. By 2016, new installations are expected to occur every 90 seconds. Two thirds of the solar capacity in the U.S. has been...
View ArticleMercom Capital: Downstream dominates as solar investment levels rebound in Q3...
While VC funding is up and a third yeildco IPO was held, Mercom’s Q3 report shows that the biggest sources of available capital in the solar industry are still Chinese banks. Mercom Capital has...
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