Colorado State launches solar center
W.S. Sampath, a Colorado State University professor and co-founder of Colorado thin-film solar panel manufacturer Abound Solar Inc., will head a new solar-power research-and-development center at CSU, the Fort Collins university announced Monday.
The new facility will be called the National Science Foundation Industry and University Cooperative Research Program.
The National Science Foundation is providing funding of $450,000 over five years. Industry participants will contribute a total of $400,000 per year.
Besides Abound Solar, a CSU spinoff that will take a leadership role at the new program, other participating companies include 5N Plus, Pilkington, Ion Edge Corp. and MBI Corp.
"With current technologies, we can convert about 10 percent of sunlight into electricity and the goal [of the new CSU research program] is to double or triple that, which will make solar electricity more commercially attractive," Sampath said in a statement. "We’ve built a machine that will explore a whole bunch of ideas.”
Read the full story in the Denver Business Journal.
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