PosiGen, a New Orleans company that specializes in marketing solar energy systems to lower-income households, announced Thursday an international firm has boosted its investment by $150 million.
That brings the total investment Brookfield Asset Management has made with PosiGen over the past year to $400 million. Brookfield is an investment firm with more than $925 billion in assets. The company’s holdings include commercial office buildings in New York, Toronto and Houston, a portfolio of hydroelectric, wind and solar assets, and the Port of Los Angeles.
“They put their money in a lot of different places,” said Benjamin Healey, president, capital markets and strategy for PosiGen. “They see PosiGen as a growing company that is serving a lot of folks nobody else is.”
PosiGen was founded in 2011 and has installed nearly 30,000 solar systems in 15…
