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San Jose residential solar brand restructured via $45M Complete Solaria bankruptcy acquisition Sept 2024; Q1 2025 $80.2M revenue profitable at $300M ARR with 906 employees targeting $1B+ through acquisitions competing with Sunrun for residential solar.
SunPower is a San Jose, California-based residential and commercial solar energy company — acquired out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy by Complete Solaria for $45 million in September 2024, which rebranded as SunPower — operating with $300+ million in annualized revenue and 906 employees under Chairman and CEO T.J. Rodgers (co-founder of Cypress Semiconductor). In Q1 2025 (the second quarterly results post-acquisition), SunPower reported $80.2 million in revenue and $1.3 million in net profit — demonstrating profitability at the $300M annualized revenue run rate with the workforce restructured from 2,901 to 906 employees. The company provides end-to-end solar solutions through the Blue Raven Solar dealer network and New Homes division for residential solar installation, system design, financing facilitation, and maintenance for 500,000+ lifetime customers. SunPower was originally founded in 1985 by Stanford professor Richard Swanson and was acquired by TotalEnergies in 2011 before its 2024 bankruptcy and asset acquisition.
Uplight-acquired DERMS and VPP platform managing 3,500 MW of flexibility for National Grid and NextEra; $160M raised at $22.9M revenue enabling utilities to orchestrate batteries, EVs, and smart loads for grid balancing.
AutoGrid is a Redwood City, California-based energy flexibility management software company — acquired by Uplight (Boulder-based energy technology company) in 2023 after raising $160 million from investors including GE Ventures, Envision Energy, Eneco, and ENGIE — providing utilities, energy retailers, and grid operators with AI-powered distributed energy resource management (DERMS), virtual power plant (VPP) orchestration, and demand flexibility platforms that aggregate and dispatch batteries, electric vehicles, HVAC systems, and industrial loads to balance grid supply and demand in real time. AutoGrid generated $22.9 million in revenue prior to acquisition and deployed technology managing 3,500 MW of flexibility capacity and 37,000 MWh of energy storage, serving customers including National Grid, NextEra Energy, and Pacific Gas & Electric.
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