
SunRoof’s €15 million venture round was led by Klima, the growth equity fund of Alantra with Inovo VC, SMOK Ventures, Alfabeat, Level2 Ventures, and angel investors, including Jon Olsson participating. As part of Governor Arnold Schwarzeneggers Million Solar Roofs Program, California has set a goal to create 1,940 megawatts of new, solar-produced electricity. Swedish design goes hand in hand with economics.” While the Berlin solar mafia specialises in renting and maintaining solar panels to consumers, SunRoof is a pure sell, but according to the company their pricing is competitive noting, “SunRoof is definitely cheaper than a roof + photovoltaic installation. SunRoof is on a mission of not only helping homeowners fulfill their own needs but also contributing to the future clean energy infrastructure.” “This year has proved it already, with Europe overwhelmed with heat waves and shadowed by energy insecurity. “The energy transition is not a plan for the future, it’s the mission we must carry out now,” commented SunRoof CEO and co-founder Lech Kaniuk. collection mechanism and storage capabilities. Much like their panel-providing cousins, SunRoof offers customers an end-to-end energy management system, i.e. And such is the case with SunRoof.Īccording to the company, they offer the “most powerful building-integrated solar roofs on the market today”, are “more productive per surface area of a roof”, and “leave lower CO2-footprint and use less resources and materials, comparing to traditional roof and PV installations”. Instead of attaching to a surface, these energy-collecting devices are the material.

Running in tandem with solar panels, objects that are affixed to existing surfaces, is the Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) industry. Candidate for Floridas governor Charlie Crist outlined his campaign plan for a million solar roofs across Florida while at a home using solar power in South. We’ve seen plenty of rent-the-panels-from-us startups pop up seemingly overnight, and a vast majority hailing from Berlin.
MILLION SOLAR ROOFS PLAN INSTALL
To date, SunRoof has raised a total of €21.5 million.Īs witnessed over the past year, both consumer and commercial interest in solar energy has skyrocketed appropriately in accord with the equally skyrocketing cost of traditional energy sources. The goal of the Million Solar Roofs Initiative, announced by President Clinton in June of 1997, is to install 3,000 megawatts of solar energy systems on one million United States buildings by 2010. The rays are expected to help the company further strengthen its position in its key markets, namely Sweden, Germany, and Poland through increased sales and production efforts. Answering the fundamental question on all of our minds, “Why have solar panels when I could have a solar roof?” Sweden’s SunRoof has raised €15 million in a venture round led by Klima.
