California-based Sungevity today announced $70m in new equity financing, with money coming in from Jetstream Ventures, E.ON and GE Ventures, the latter of which first invested in the company last year.

“With E.ON and GE Ventures as equity investors, the Sungevity coalition now includes the world’s largest investor-owned utility company [in E.ON], the company that built  much of the planet’s power infrastructure [in GE], and one of the world’s largest retailers [in Lowe’s, with which Sungevity has had a relationship since 2011],” says Sungevity chief executive Andrew Birch.

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