Wall St sours on mechanism to fund green projects
The business structure, known as yieldco, has lost favour following recent headwinds
New York
WALL Street investors have gone cold on one of the main mechanisms banks invented to fund the green-energy revolution.
The business structure, known as the yieldco, feeds dividends from operating solar and wind farms to investors. Yieldcos raised US$7.9 billion in public equity in 2014 and 2015 but only US$1 billion since then, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF).
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