{"id":353872,"date":"2010-02-23T13:41:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T18:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/?p=64745"},"modified":"2010-02-23T13:41:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T18:41:07","slug":"general-compression-announces-17m-series-a-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/353872","title":{"rendered":"General Compression Announces $17M Series A Round"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"text-transform:uppercase\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/tag\/deals\/\">deals<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/tag\/energy\/\">energy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/tag\/startups\/\">startups<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\t\t<strong>Howard Lovy wrote:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.generalcompression.com\">General Compression<\/a>, a Newton, MA-based energy storage company, announced today that it has &#8220;it has closed over $17 million in commitments to its Series A round of funding.&#8221; The funding, from U.S. Renewables Group and Duke Energy, will be used to build General Compression&#8217;s first commercial-scale wind power storage unit this year. The company declined to elaborate on its press release <a href=\"http:\/\/www.generalcompression.com\/pressroom\/GC%20A%20Round%20Press%20Release%2023Feb10.pdf\">(pdf here)<\/a>, which did not specify if the $17 million is all new equity investment; General Compression sold $4.8 million in convertible securities in 2007 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/vprr\/07\/9999999997-07-014734\">according to an SEC filing (a pdf of which is here)<\/a>. The startup&#8217;s energy storage system uses compressed air to save wind energy and send it out on transmission lines in a reliable way, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/boston\/2007\/07\/25\/wind-power-when-the-wind-aint-blowin\/\">Wade described a few years back<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"postFooter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/boston\/2010\/02\/23\/general-compression-announces-17m-series-a-round\/#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/reprints\/>Reprints<\/a> | Share: &nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=RT%20@Xconomy%20General%20Compression%20Announces%20$17M%20Series%20A%20Round%20http:\/\/xconomy.com\/?p=64745\"  rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/twitter.gif\" alt=\"Retweet\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/boston\/2010\/02\/23\/general-compression-announces-17m-series-a-round\/&#038;t=General%20Compression%20Announces%20$17M%20Series%20A%20Round\"  rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/facebook.gif\" alt=\"Facebook\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<a href=http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/boston\/2010\/02\/23\/general-compression-announces-17m-series-a-round\/email\/  rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/email.gif\" alt=\"Email\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/sharethis.com\/item?publisher=bfda184d-6684-4f7a-a23f-ca4ed4db9287&amp;title=General+Compression+Announces+%2417M+Series+A+Round&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.xconomy.com%2Fboston%2F2010%2F02%2F23%2Fgeneral-compression-announces-17m-series-a-round%2F\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/share.gif\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t     \t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=ca1cd061d156f9f3d1bb5cfbb3b71660&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=ca1cd061d156f9f3d1bb5cfbb3b71660&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2218\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/mOJHmcDLq7vOcUdxdSBMPSl3jSI\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/mOJHmcDLq7vOcUdxdSBMPSl3jSI\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/mOJHmcDLq7vOcUdxdSBMPSl3jSI\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/mOJHmcDLq7vOcUdxdSBMPSl3jSI\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Xconomy_Full\/~4\/VnMqw5N8Iyo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>deals, energy, startups Howard Lovy wrote: General Compression, a Newton, MA-based energy storage company, announced today that it has &#8220;it has closed over $17 million in commitments to its Series A round of funding.&#8221; The funding, from U.S. Renewables Group and Duke Energy, will be used to build General Compression&#8217;s first commercial-scale wind power storage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5881,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5881"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}