COLORADO — Springs A small New Jersey company that makes equipment for huge solar power installations is setting up a manufacturing facility in Colorado Springs.
Olson Motor and Control manufactures solar combiner boxes — pieces of equipment that collect the power from individual solar panels and combine it, then send it on to first an inverter and then the power grid.
President Bill Olson started the business 26 years ago as an electrical engineering and industrial control panel firm, then branched into the solar sphere six years ago.
Olson Motor and Control employs 12 people in New Jersey and is starting small in Colorado Springs, leasing a 3,200-square foot facility on Aerotech Drive near the Colorado Springs Airport that will employ three people.
Olson said the facility should be running by April 1, assembling and shipping the company’s combiner boxes, which typically go into very large, utility-scale solar power installations. Its products aren’t used in residential solar installations.
The Aerotech location offers the company the potential to expand up to about 10,000 square feet and it hopes to eventually employ a dozen people in Colorado Springs.
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