Miasole, Consumer Powerline, and 212 Resources

Just a few quick notes while traveling on some of the big news items this week:

• Amidst a lot of recent talk about the impacts of the ongoing polysilicon shortage, high-profile CIGS thin film panel manufacturer Miasole has apparently started recognizing revenues from shipped product, and also raised a Series D round of financing of somewhere in the neighborhood of $50mm, according to VentureWire (GTM wrote up a blurb here).  New investors (apparently there were six) were not disclosed, but previous investors also participated.  The various CIGS manufacturers have been making noise about forward progress for some time now, but this would be one of the bigger pieces of concrete indications of looming mass commercialization.  [As always, whenever I mention Miasole I’m obliged to note that I am a small personal shareholder]

• Demand response aggregator Consumer Powerline announced a $17mm Series A round of financing, led by Expansion Capital Partners, along with co-investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Schneider Electric Ventures, the New York City Investment Fund, and Vantania Holdings (managed by the Consensus Business Group).  Demand response continues to show a lot of sectoral momentum…

• Very pleased to note [two self-promotion alerts in one day, huh] that GE Energy Financial Services has provided a $250mm senior secured credit facility to @Ventures portfolio company 212 Resources, to support their build-out of systems for the treatment of wastewater and recovery of hydrocarbons from oil and gas production.

More to follow, including reflections on recent analyst tallies of cleantech investment numbers so far this year…