Siva Power Lands $10M to Chase Giga-Scale Domestic Thin-Film Solar Production

By Eric Wesoff: Pro­duc­ing gigawatts’ worth of thin-film solar pan­els with domes­tic man­u­fac­tur­ing is still a real pos­si­bil­i­ty for CEO Brad Matt­son and CTO Markus Beck of Siva Power.

The San Jose, Calif.-based solar start­up is fresh­ly fund­ed and focused on devel­op­ing the world’s largest-scale and least-expen­sive thin-film CIGS pro­duc­tion line.

The com­pa­ny just banked $10 mil­lion in new fund­ing, which includes a $3 mil­lion DOE Sun­Shot grant, a $3 mil­lion con­ver­sion of debt financ­ing from Tri­dent Cap­i­tal, DBL Investors, Med­ley Part­ners and Acero Cap­i­tal, as well as $4 mil­lion in new cap­i­tal from the city of Wuxi, Chi­na and exist­ing investors DBL, Med­ley, and Acero.

Accord­ing to Siva’s CEO (and new author) Brad Matt­son, this cap­i­tal allows Siva to begin build­ing “the world’s high­est-capac­i­ty co-evap­o­ra­tion source” and nar­row down the site selec­tion for its envi­sioned 300 megawatt-fac­to­ry. Cal­i­for­nia is on the short list.

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