Fat Spaniel and Meteotest bring some sunlight to solar plant data
Fat Spaniel, provider of web-based software to help companies monitor the output of renewable energy projects, is adding an important data set to its system: Sunlight. To do this, it has announced a partnership that will allow users of Fat Spaniel’s software to view Swiss company Meteotest’s solar radiation satellite data.
This ties into San Jose, Calif.-based Fat Spaniel’s broader goal to help customers understand how their solar plants and other renewable energy projects are performing…. Continue Reading
Fat Spaniel bulks up with $18 million, plans expansion to Europe
Along with alternative energy generation comes a host of attendant technologies, from storage and transmission, to grid management, and measurement and analysis. Fat Spaniel is in that final category, with a set of tools used to measure power output of installations like solar cells.
The company has taken a substantial $18 million second round of funding, which it plans to use to expand in Europe and reach profitability in mid-2009. It has done more than a… Continue Reading
Fat Spaniel raises $3.5 million more for solar monitoring technology
Fat Spaniel, the San Jose start-up that helps energy and other companies manage the distribution and billing of energy usage, has raised $3.5 million more from Draper Fisher Jurvetson’s cleantech fund, DFJ Element, and Chrysalix Energy.
Fat Spaniel serves the distributed renewable energy area, including solar.
The funding follows a $3.5 million injection in April (scroll down) by DFJ Element, and so gives the start-up a total of $7 million in venture backing (here is the company’s… Continue Reading