150 Solar Startups Revisited

Eric Wesoff

January 17, 2009 at 11:42 PM

Would you believe 200 Solar Startups?

A few months ago, I told the Greentech Media Braintrust that I had a list of about 100 solar startups.  Their response, not surprisingly, was “blog it.” 

So I started categorizing the list and the list kept growing until I was able to publish a six-part blog piece called “150 Solar Startups.”

• Part 1: Wafered Silicon, Installers, Financiers, Balance of Systems
• Part 2: CPV
• Part 3: Next-Gen PV
• Part 4: Thin Film
• Part 5: Solar AC and CHP
• Part 6: CSP

But the thing took on a life of its’ own — a Google search yields a thousand hits for “150 Solar Startups” and all of a sudden I started hearing from people I didn’t know — they’d ask, “Did you know there were more than 150 solar startups?” 

Of course I know — I wrote the flipping article.

Anyway, I’ve spent the last few weeks updating the list and updating it again and we’re up to more than 200 solar startups.  Note that this list is devoted to VC funded and pre-VC firms, not OTC firms, not publicly traded firms.  Of course the list will never be complete — there are stealth firms and science projects being liberated from labs every day...