Solar financing startup Clean Power Finance raises $37M from Google Ventures, Kleiner

There's one area of solar that is going gangbusters in 2013, and that's companies that are financing and installing solar panels on rooftops. On Monday morning solar financing startup Clean Power Finance announced that it has raised a round of $37 million in growth equity from investors including Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins and Claremont Creek Venture. Odds are, it's a pretty safe bet even for the venture capitalists that have been scared of ...

http://gigaom.com/2013/04/08/solar-financing-startup-clean-power-finan

Will NRG Energy be the next ten ton gorilla in solar leases?

NRG Energy, one of the most aggressive power companies to invest in solar projects, is considering getting into offering leases for solar panel roof systems for home owners and businesses. NRG Energy's CEO David Crane tells Bloomberg that it is something that they're "looking at in a very serious way," and NRG Solar's CEO Tom Doyle told me last month that the company has been inreasingly talking about financing options for solar roofs and in part ...

http://gigaom.com/2013/03/25/will-nrg-energy-be-the-next-ten-ton-goril

Solar panel rooftop startup Sungevity raises a whopping $125 million

Turns out there are investors out there still willing to put some big money into solar startups and solar projects - just not into the solar manufacturers right now. On Wednesday morning solar sales and marketing startup Sungevity announced that it's raised a whopping $125 million in funding to grow its business and its solar panel rooftop projects. That round includes the $40 million in equity that Sungevity was working on last year, and the res ...

http://gigaom.com/2013/01/16/solar-panel-rooftop-startup-sungevity-rai