A consultation procedure with key national energy stakeholders took also place, including policy makers, project developers, investors, equity providers, bankers and energy analysts in the Greek RE market, in order to provide a validation of the respective results.
Debt or equity providers, all acting rationally by the way, support just a tiny minority of start-ups.
Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, was equally vocal: "No one should be surprised or shocked at equity providers pulling the plug on free schools in Sweden.
We desperately need innovative financing models for start-ups, because debt or equity providers, all acting rationally by the way, support just a tiny minority of startups.
If a company that has taken out mezzanine financing collapses, lenders of senior debt have the first claim to any assets; mezzanine debt providers have the second claim; equity providers get anything that's left over.
Borrowed capital is, however, generally less popular among equity providers for one simple fact: debt providers are normally not lending against the creditworthiness of the start-up, but against the creditworthiness of the venture capitalist firms.
This could prove vital because, in the last quarter of 2008, 10 out of 14 tax-equity providers stopped doing business in the solar market.
Steve Lowe, director at equity release provider Just Retirement, said: "People aged 65 and over who are homeowners have on average £150,000 to £200,000 of housing equity.
If you need to boost your income or access a lump sum of cash, some equity release providers – Partnership and More2Life – offer "enhanced" lifetime mortgages.
