Archive for the ‘Press Releases’ Category

Press Release: Morgan Solar Inc. Closes B Round at USD
$28.8 Million, with USD $9.8 Million Investment From
Enbridge Inc.

Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

TORONTO, Ontario – November 29, 2011 – Morgan Solar Inc. announced today it has secured a USD $9.8 million (CAD $10 million) investment from Enbridge Inc., a North American leader in oil and natural gas delivery (more…)


Press Release: MSI Announces Turnkey Sun Simba™ CPV
System With Drop-In-Place Savanna™ Solar Tracker

Thursday, September 8th, 2011

TORONTO, Ontario – September 8, 2011 – Morgan Solar Inc. today announced its patent-pending Savanna™ tracker, a lightweight, self-ballasted sun tracking system optimized for the company’s groundbreaking Sun Simba™ Concentrated Photovoltaic (CPV) module. (more…)


PRESS RELEASE: USPTO Grants Morgan Solar Inc. Second
Patent for High-Concentration Optical Waveguide
Technology

Wednesday, August 10th, 2011

TORONTO, August 9, 2011 – The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted Morgan Solar (MSI) a second patent for its Sun Simba technology, without objections or revisions to the filed claims. The patent, US 7,991,261, is a continuation of (more…)


PRESS RELEASE: Morgan Solar Closes $16.5 Million in the
First Tranche of its Series B Funding

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

As released this morning on Canada Newswire; also check our Jennifer Kho’s in-depth article on Venture Beat, “Morgan Solar brings in $16.5 M for lower-cost solar,” which talks more about where we are as a company, and what we plan to do with the funding:

TORONTO, May 26, 2011 /CNW/ - Morgan Solar Inc. has closed USD $16.5 million in the first tranche of its Series B funding round to ramp up manufacturing and deployment of its Sun Simba concentrated photovoltaic module.

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APPrO: Inaugural Canadian Energy Innovation Award
Presented to Morgan Solar

Wednesday, November 17th, 2010

Award Aims to Encourage Application of Ontario Technology Globally

TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – Nov. 16, 2010) – Toronto-based solar energy start-up Morgan Solar Inc. was today awarded the inaugural Canadian Energy Innovation Award (CEIA) for its pioneering collaboration with the University of Ottawa SUNLab.

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Press Release: Corporate Knights Names Morgan Solar one
of Next 10 Emerging Cleantech Leaders

Thursday, October 28th, 2010

Each year since 2007, Corporate Knights magazine and the Cleantech Group have selected a Cleantech 10 and a Next 10, the twenty companies in the cleantech space that their selection committees deem have either made it, or are poised to make it big. In 2008 Morgan Solar was singled out as an emerging company to watch (we wrote about it here).  Now the 2010 list is out, (more…)


Press Release: Morgan Solar hires former CEO of eSolar
as CEO

Tuesday, October 12th, 2010

The Ontario innovation commercialization centre MaRS Discover District released the following Press Release today (original here).

TORONTO (October 12, 2010) – MaRS Discovery District is pleased to announce that Asif Ansari, former CEO of Los Angeles based eSolar, Inc., has taken the position of Chief Executive Officer at Toronto startup Morgan Solar. Ansari, considered one of the most successful start-up CEOs in the solar energy world, (more…)


Press Release: Gov. Schwarzenegger Awards Clean Energy
Business Financing, Morgan Solar a Recipient

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

The following Press Release (original here) was issued today by the Office of the Governor of California:

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today issued the following statement after the California Energy Commission approved the final four loans, totaling more than $13.4 million, for the state’s Clean Energy Business Financing Program (CEBFP) for California-based manufacturers of solar products. (more…)


Press Release: Morgan Solar Exceeds Funding Target,
Raises $8.2 Million

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

TORONTO, Jan. 6 – Morgan Solar Inc., a Toronto based solar energy start-up, have increased their first-round investment to USD $8.2 million from the USD $4.7 million announced in October 2009. (more…)


Press Release: Morgan Solar Secures USD $4.7 Million
Institutional Investment and Launches Manufacturing of
the Sun Simba HCPV

Friday, October 9th, 2009

Solar energy start-up Morgan Solar closes first tranche of their round A investment with Iberdrola Group SA, Nypro Inc, and Turnstone Capital Management LLC. (more…)