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Cenergy's new CEO will bring clean-energy innovations to global marketplace
Cenergy and Clean Energy Supercluster products in development
- Lithium ion battery technology that dramatically reduces charge time and increases battery life.
- Large-engine technologies, including laser-based spark ignition systems.
- Wind technologies, including small wind and vertical axis technology that could be tested and optimized at the planned CSU Maxwell Ranch wind farm.
- Multiple biofuels projects including new refining technologies, enhanced lipid yields and bi-product innovation, and new educational laboratory equipment and programs for K-12.
- Multiple photovoltaic inventions including new solar panel materials, fault detection, and manufacturing techniques to reduce cost and complexity.
Entrepreneur and former technology-company executive Tim Reeser has been named the chief operating officer of Cenergy, the business arm of the Colorado State University Clean Energy Supercluster. The Supercluster, launched in March 2008, was created to more rapidly move clean-energy innovations to the global marketplace.
Reeser will find business opportunities for the technology developed through CSU research, including the creation of companies to produce new products. CSU professor Bryan Willson oversees the clean-energy research as the chief scientific officer for the Supercluster and will work closely with Reeser.
Reeser has a long history of entrepreneurship in Colorado, which began as a student working on the Natural Gas Vehicle Challenge and Hybrid Electric Vehicle Project in CSU's Engines and Energy Conversion Laboratory. Reeser has since co-founded Engineering Computer Consultants, an engineering IT services organization that he grew to $7 million in revenue. He then served as a partner at the private technology consulting and software firm 3t Systems, whose revenue increased from $15 million to $39 million. Reeser also co-founded Lightning Hybrids, a Loveland- based hybrid vehicle start-up company.
Cenergy is already working on more than 20 projects that are ready or close to being ready for commercialization, says Reeser. "We are committed to ensuring that these new technologies not only benefit the local community and world around us but also the students, staff, and faculty of CSU through incremental new research work, grants, and industry partnerships."
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