Published On:January 28 2015
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Global wind energy projects' funding worth $32 billion in 2014.

Global wind energy sector garnered funds worth nearly $32 billion last year, with major chunk coming from project-funding deals, says a report.

Out of the total amount, around $20 billion came from project funding activities spread across 120 deals.

'Total funding into the wind sector reached $31.7 billion in 2014 including VC funding, public market financings, debt financings, and announced project funding deals,' Mercom Capital Group, a global clean energy communications and consulting firm, said in its report recently.

In 2014, announced large-scale project funding were worth $20 billion spread across 120 deals. There were a total of 139 investors that participated in project funding last year, the report said.

'The most active project funding investors were KfW IPEX-Bank with nine deals, followed by Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) with eight deals, and Banco Santander, Bayerische Landesbank New York Branch (BayernLB), and Eksport Kredit Fonden (EKF) with seven deals each,' it added.

While debt financing amounted to $7.7 billion in 2014, public market financing stood at $3.7 billion during the same period.

Venture capital funding into the wind sector stood at $311 million last year.

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