Mountain View, California-based Ausra, Inc. today announced a $25.5 million equity funding facility.
Funds from the new equity facility are available to
Ausra for expansion and acceleration of the company’s solar thermal energy equipment supply
business.
Investors in this equity financing include Ausra’s founding investors, Silicon Valley-based
Khosla Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; and its newest international investors
KERN Partners of Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Generation Investment Management, based in
London, England; and Starfish Ventures of Melbourne, Australia.
In October 2008, Ausra commissioned a 5-megawatts demonstration-scale power plant in Bakersfield, California.However, in January, the company announced it was shifting its focus from developing utility-scale power plants to selling the equipment produced at its factory in Las Vegas.
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