{"id":293774,"date":"2010-02-08T15:44:41","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T20:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/?p=6172"},"modified":"2010-02-08T15:44:41","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T20:44:41","slug":"petra-solar-raises-40-million-for-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/293774","title":{"rendered":"Petra Solar Raises $40 Million for Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/funding.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Funding\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/solar.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Solar\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/PetraSolar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6173\" title=\"PetraSolar\" src=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/PetraSolar-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Petra Solar announced today that it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petrasolar.com\/petra-solar-news-and-events-news-02052010.php\">raised $40 million<\/a> to expand its utility pole mounted-smart grid and solar systems business from new and existing investors.<\/p>\n<p>New investors Craton Equity Partners and Espirito Santo Ventures pitched in, as did existing investors Element Partners, Blue Run Ventures, OnPoint Technologies and Kuwait&#8217;s National Technology Enterprises Company (NTEC).<\/p>\n<p>Petra Solar, based in South Plainfield, N.J., will use the new round of financing to hire another 30 executive and professional employees. By 2010, they will have 165 staffers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GreenEnergyReporter\/~4\/2nIleWrIgX4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petra Solar announced today that it raised $40 million to expand its utility pole mounted-smart grid and solar systems business from new and existing investors. New investors Craton Equity Partners and Espirito Santo Ventures pitched in, as did existing investors Element Partners, Blue Run Ventures, OnPoint Technologies and Kuwait&#8217;s National Technology Enterprises Company (NTEC). Petra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":854,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}