Featured in The turning point – 05-2011

After the gold rush

Venture Capital: When a venture capital investment company like Good Energies – the company that backed Europe’s solar giants Q-Cells and REC long before solar PV was a multi-billion euro industry – drops its exclusive focus on solar PV investing, it is worth finding out more. Is the smart money leaving solar, or are there still opportunities in the PV industry for such investments?

Good Energies has built a reputation for investing in solar photovoltaic companies, both startup and fast growing ventures, as well as downstream developers in solar and wind. Not only did it invest in REC and Q-Cells when the PV industry was still producing hundreds of megawatts, and not the two digit gigawatts it is today, …

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