SunPower is a leading company in the solar energy sector, specializing in the design, manufacture, and delivery of solar electric systems for residential, commercial, and utility-scale applications. The company’s solar cells and panels produce higher energy output compared to conventional technologies, featuring a distinctive all-black aesthetic. SunPower operates from its corporate headquarters in Athens, Ohio, and focuses on innovative solutions that enhance energy efficiency and sustainability. In addition to solar solutions, the company is involved in contract research and development and intellectual property licensing, emphasizing its commitment to advancing clean energy technologies.
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Wolf River Electric
Venture Round in 2023
Wolf River Electric specializes in the installation of solar panels for both residential and commercial clients across Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa. The company offers a range of services that include electrical wiring, battery backup systems, EV charging solutions, and smart electric panels. Additionally, Wolf River Electric provides products such as Tesla Power Walls and LED lighting, ensuring that customers have access to comprehensive energy solutions tailored to their needs.
EmPower Solar
Corporate Round in 2022
EmPower Solar specializes in the development, engineering, installation, and servicing of solar and battery systems for both residential and commercial clients. The company aims to advance clean, renewable energy solutions that promote energy independence and reduce environmental impact. In addition to solar and battery systems, EmPower Solar also operates electric vehicle charging stations, facilitating the transition to green energy. Through its comprehensive services, the company empowers clients to lower energy costs while contributing to a healthier and more sustainable future.
Renova Solar
Corporate Round in 2022
Renova Energy Corp, based in Palm Desert, California, specializes in integrating renewable energy solutions into sustainable buildings. The company emphasizes that a sustainable building remains relevant over time, with renewable energy systems playing a crucial role in enhancing the return on investment for sustainability. Renova's approach begins with a comprehensive energy efficiency audit, known as the Five Star Energy Audit, which assesses energy usage and identifies opportunities for upgrades. Following this analysis, Renova customizes and installs solar systems and batteries that are designed to perform optimally in harsh desert conditions. By focusing on energy conservation and efficiency, Renova aims to help customers achieve significant savings while enhancing comfort and peace of mind in their energy use.
OhmConnect
Series D in 2022
OhmConnect, Inc. is a software company based in Oakland, California, founded in 2013. It offers a platform that incentivizes users to reduce their household energy consumption during peak hours by converting energy savings into monetary compensation. Through real-time analytics and integration with energy markets, OhmConnect enables users to sell their energy reductions, thereby contributing to demand response efforts. In addition to its software services, the company also sells wireless smart plugs that allow users to remotely control appliances, further enhancing energy efficiency. By promoting energy conservation, OhmConnect helps users lower their electricity bills while supporting environmental sustainability.
Blue Raven Solar
Acquisition in 2021
Blue Raven Solar, LLC is a residential solar company based in American Fork, Utah, specializing in the design, installation, monitoring, and maintenance of solar energy systems. Founded in 2014, the company aims to enhance homeowners' lives by reducing energy bills and promoting the use of clean, renewable energy. Blue Raven Solar offers innovative financing products, such as BluePower™ and BluePowerPlus+™, which allow customers to access solar solutions with no upfront costs. With multiple office locations across the United States, including Connecticut, Massachusetts, California, Nevada, New York, Maryland, New Jersey, and New Mexico, the company is committed to delivering a reliable customer experience through efficient installations and tailored solar panel systems.
SolarWorld Americas
Acquisition in 2018
SolarWorld Americas Inc. is a prominent manufacturer of solar power solutions, specializing in solar panels and photovoltaic cells. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon, the company has established itself as a leader in the solar industry, recognized for its commitment to high quality and environmental standards. Operating as a subsidiary of SunPower Corporation since 2018, SolarWorld Americas combines various stages of the photovoltaic value chain, ensuring the reliability and efficiency of its products. With manufacturing facilities in the United States and Germany, as well as sales offices spanning global solar markets, the company provides a wide range of commercial solar power systems and solutions for government applications, maintaining a strong focus on solar energy innovation and sustainability.
Solaire Generation
Acquisition in 2015
Solaire Generation is a leading company in the design and innovation of solar carports, effectively transforming parking lots into solar power plants. Based in New York City, Solaire specializes in the installation and maintenance of solar parking canopies and mounted solar generation systems for both commercial and residential sectors. The company is recognized for completing the largest corporate solar carport installation in the United States, a significant 3.6 MW project for Dow Jones. Solaire's structures are fabricated in the United States and can include additional features such as advertising space, water reclamation systems, and electric vehicle charging stations, showcasing a commitment to sustainability and efficiency in urban environments.
Beamreach
Series D in 2015
Beamreach Solar focuses on the development of high-efficiency, low-cost crystalline silicon solar cells and modules for photovoltaic electricity generation. The company utilizes an innovative, proprietary cell architecture to enhance the sunlight capture and conversion efficiency of mono-crystalline silicon materials. This approach not only improves the performance of their solar panels but also aims to make clean energy more affordable and accessible. By optimizing the design, Beamreach enables solar installers and commercial building owners to reduce installation time and labor costs associated with traditional solar panels and racking systems.
Tendril
Venture Round in 2014
Tendril enables utilities to drive customer engagement via a rich and tailored experience for the home energy consumer. Energy and service providers rely on Tendril’s customizable software solutions to engage consumers to meet efficiency goals and improve customer service operations. All solutions are powered by an open, cloud-based, secure, and scalable platform that seamlessly supports numerous other utility-grade applications.
SolarBridge Technologies
Acquisition in 2014
SolarBridge Technologies, originally founded as SmartSpark Energy Systems in 2004, specializes in microinverter and monitoring solutions for residential and small commercial solar power installations. The company pivoted to focus exclusively on the solar industry in 2009, leveraging power electronics technologies developed at the University of Illinois. With significant research and development facilities in Champaign, Illinois, and a corporate headquarters in Austin, Texas, SolarBridge aims to enhance the efficiency and reliability of solar energy systems. Their offerings include an energy management system that integrates a microinverter directly with photovoltaic modules, providing alternating current power to the grid. Additionally, SolarBridge provides a solar information module that gathers performance data from each microinverter, allowing system owners to analyze and monitor their solar installations remotely via the Internet. Through these innovations, SolarBridge Technologies seeks to lower the Levelized Cost of Energy for solar installations while improving overall energy production and simplifying installation processes.
Dragonfly Systems
Acquisition in 2014
Dragonfly Systems manufactures and markets electronic solutions to recapture electricity lost due to PV module mismatch in new or existing solar installations. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Los Gatos, California.
Solexel
Venture Round in 2014
SOLEXEL is an innovative solar photovoltaic (PV) technology company based in Silicon Valley (Milpitas, CA). Over the past seven years, the company has developed a range of highly differentiated solutions to the solar industry’s overarching challenge: the tradeoff between cost and performance. Solexel is backed by top venture investors and by industry leaders. The company has approximately 55 employees and is rapidly approaching commercialization.SOLEXEL operates as a solar photovoltaic technology company.
Beamreach
Series D in 2014
Beamreach Solar focuses on the development of high-efficiency, low-cost crystalline silicon solar cells and modules for photovoltaic electricity generation. The company utilizes an innovative, proprietary cell architecture to enhance the sunlight capture and conversion efficiency of mono-crystalline silicon materials. This approach not only improves the performance of their solar panels but also aims to make clean energy more affordable and accessible. By optimizing the design, Beamreach enables solar installers and commercial building owners to reduce installation time and labor costs associated with traditional solar panels and racking systems.
Beamreach
Series C in 2013
Beamreach Solar focuses on the development of high-efficiency, low-cost crystalline silicon solar cells and modules for photovoltaic electricity generation. The company utilizes an innovative, proprietary cell architecture to enhance the sunlight capture and conversion efficiency of mono-crystalline silicon materials. This approach not only improves the performance of their solar panels but also aims to make clean energy more affordable and accessible. By optimizing the design, Beamreach enables solar installers and commercial building owners to reduce installation time and labor costs associated with traditional solar panels and racking systems.
Tenesol
Acquisition in 2011
Tenesol SA is a global solar provider based in La Tour de Salvagny, France, and operates as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Total SA. The company specializes in designing, manufacturing, installing, and managing solar energy systems. With a presence in 18 countries, Tenesol focuses on both the production of solar panels and the implementation of solar energy solutions, contributing to the growing demand for renewable energy. It operates manufacturing facilities in France and South Africa, underscoring its commitment to advancing solar technology and promoting sustainable energy consumption.
BrightSource
Series D in 2010
BrightSource Energy, Inc. is a solar thermal technology company based in Oakland, California, that specializes in designing, developing, and selling proprietary systems for utility-scale electric power plants. The company utilizes fields of tracking mirrors, known as heliostats, alongside its proprietary software to concentrate sunlight onto a solar receiver/boiler unit, generating high-temperature steam. This steam can be used to produce electricity through conventional steam turbines or for industrial applications like thermal enhanced oil recovery. BrightSource also offers comprehensive project development services, including site acquisition, permitting, and securing power purchase agreements, while serving utility-scale solar thermal power project owners and contractors, as well as oil production companies. The firm has established strategic relationships with prominent partners in the energy sector, emphasizing its commitment to providing low-cost, reliable clean energy that competes with fossil fuels.
Recurve
Series A in 2008
Recurve is an open-source software-as-a-service platform based in Mill Valley, California, founded in 2005. The company provides tools that enable utilities to utilize smart meter data for measuring energy usage effectively. Its platform is designed to identify the resource potential behind customer meters, facilitating the deployment of programs that respond to hourly price signals. This approach promotes marketplace innovation and allows businesses to develop and implement demand flexibility strategies, effectively functioning as a virtual power plant. Additionally, Recurve offers software tailored for contractors involved in home energy audits, enhancing energy efficiency and supporting remodeling and construction services.
PowerLight
Acquisition in 2006
Powerlight, Inc. is a leading designer, manufacturer and installer of photovoltaic integrated building systems that gather energy from the sun to deliver reliable, affordable, and clean power. To accommodate this rapidly growing company, we designed three over scaled, freestanding, sculptural elements that divide the large open office into smaller zones, and allow desks, filing cabinets and computers to move freely as staff and departments grow and change. All three large elements can be disassembled into smaller components to accommodate the moves of a young, growing company. The elements are also made with salvaged, low toxic or resource efficient materials and each reflects some aspect of the company's mission.
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