The company plans to trade on the NASDAQ using the symbol SCTY.
For the six months ended June 30, the company reported revenue of $71.4 million, including $51.7 from solar energy systems sales, and the rest from operating leases. That's up from $20.3 million in the comparable year-ago period. In the same period, the company lost $23.1 million. For all of 2011, SolarCity reported revenue of $59.6 million.
The largest investor in the company is noneother than Elon Musk, the CEO of both publicly held electric car maker Tesla Motors and still privately held rocket company SpaceX. He holds a 31.9% stake. Other large holders include venture firm Draper Fisher with 26.3%, Generation IM Climate Solutions Fund, with 7.5%, and Bay Area Equity Fund, with 7.4%. The filing notes that some insiders plan to sell shares in the IPO, but the filing does not specify the number of shares to be sold overall.