Company Profile: SolarCity

Residential and commercial solar installer/financier

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Distributed Generation
Next Generation Power
Owning the Energy Transition
Solar
Solar Systems

Categories	Distributed generation projects
Competitors	Westinghouse Solar, Solon, Phoenix Solar, Solar Integrated Technologies, REC Group, SunEdison, Sunrun, Clean Power Finance, REC Solar, Vivint Solar, SunPower, Sungevity, OneRoof Energy, Hanwha SolarOne, Sunpods, Armageddon Energy, Verengo Solar, Acro Energy Technologies, Sunwize
Relationships	JP Morgan (Investor) Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) (Investor) + 73 additional customers, development partners, investees, investors, joint venture partners, subsidiaries, suppliers, and technology partners. Sign in to view

Strategy & Markets

SolarCity sells, finances, and installs residential and commercial solar systems; for those it finances,...

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