Started at the bottom of the list ... Tigo:
http://www.jpost.com/Sci-Tech/Article.aspx?ID=216496&R=R1
US SunShot initiative backs promising solar firms with $5.8m
The US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has handed out $5.8m to a quartet of promising solar technology companies as part of its high-profile SunShot Incubator programme.
Tigo Energy was given more than $3m to pilot a low-cost DC arc-fault detector, which is designed to enhance the safety of PV arrays while reducing operations and maintenance costs for system owners.
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http://www.jpost.com/Sci-Tech/Article.aspx?ID=216496&R=R1
Al Gore invests $10m. in Israeli solar energy projects
By YUVAL AZULAI / GLOBES
04/13/2011 20:19
Gore’s cleantech fund to finance Tigo Energy Inc., which develops solutions to maximize output by photovoltaic installations.
Tigo Energy Inc. has raised $10 million in its third financing round plus a $10 million credit line from Climate Solutions Fund LP, managed Generation Investment Management LLP, whose chairman is former US Vice President Al Gore. Tigo develops solutions to maximize output by photovoltaic installations.
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(More later ... thanks for the link.)
This “renewable energy funding” is just open access to the US coffers......sickening.