{"id":685275,"date":"2010-03-08T11:46:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T16:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/?p=6845"},"modified":"2010-03-08T11:46:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T16:46:31","slug":"pe-fund-us-renewables-group-launches-wind-focused-financing-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/685275","title":{"rendered":"PE Fund US Renewables Group Launches Wind-focused Financing Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/funding.png?resize=8%2C8\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Funding\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/wind.png?resize=8%2C8\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Wind\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Opportunity abounds, even in this difficult credit environment. That&#8217;s at least what clean energy-focused investment fund US Renewables Group (USRG) thinks. Today the firm launched Westerly Wind, a new venture\u00a0that will\u00a0provide financing to wind developers that are having a hard time raising capital.  <span id=\"more-6845\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pehub.com\/?p=65538\" >posted on PeHUB<\/a> Lee Bailey, managing director of USRG, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The recent financial crisis has led to a shortage of development capital and, as a result, many promising wind development projects are not being adequately funded.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To lead its new funding unit USRG has taped Joe Cofelice, the former CEO of American National Power. He was also president of Catamount Energy, the Vermont-based wind developer <a href=\"http:\/\/charlotte.bizjournals.com\/charlotte\/stories\/2008\/06\/23\/daily35.html\" >acquired in 2008 by Duke Energy for $240 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>USRG has mobilized over $750 million of capital commitments to invest in renewable energy projects since it launched in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve called USRG to get some more details on exactly how much capital it\u2019s invested in Westerly.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GreenEnergyReporter\/~4\/Ii_t5yA8-dI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opportunity abounds, even in this difficult credit environment. That&#8217;s at least what clean energy-focused investment fund US Renewables Group (USRG) thinks. Today the firm launched Westerly Wind, a new venture\u00a0that will\u00a0provide financing to wind developers that are having a hard time raising capital. In a released posted on PeHUB Lee Bailey, managing director of USRG, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2SgP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}