Solar optimists see a bright 2012
After several years of hard knocks for the cleantech sector, 2012 offers renewed hope for some.
The Bay Area is home to a host of solar finance companies and installers that are growing like gangbusters.
The list includes SolarCity, SunRun, Sungevity and SunEdison, which moved its headquarters to Belmont from Maryland in mid-2011. It also includes Clean Power Finance, a four-year-old company that pulled in $25 million from investors including Kleiner Perkins in 2011 and put together a $75 million fund with Google to to finance solar projects.
In 2012, these firms will together hire more than 1,000 people, will build or finance more solar projects than ever before, and some of them will likely create lucrative exits for their investors.
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