BrightSource Energy, a US-based solar thermal company backed by numerous corporate venturing units including France-based power equipment company Alstom’s, has raised $80m following its failure to float in April.
The series F round takes BrightSource’s total equity raised to more than $615m, excluding more than $1.6bn in US governmnet and other loans to help build its Ivanpah installation of solar panels designed to concentrate the sun’s energy on a central tower.
Alstom Power and venture capital (VC) firm VantagePoint Venture…
