history of finsun
Finsun was founded in 1983 by Gunnar Wilson
who came from Gränges Aluminium as general research manager. In the late 1970’s
Gunnar Wilson started the development of the Sunstrip absorber and made it
feasible to mass produce a low cost solar thermal absorber for the first time in
history. The Sunstrip product is still in production, with manufacturing and
sales world wide.
In the beginning of the 1980’s finsun developed the LGB solar collector, one of
the first attempts to manufacture large scale ground based solar collectors
aimed towards district heating applications in the multi MW scale. In the same
decade the company Solsam sunergy was founded by finsun in cooperation with a
group of investors (incuding Folksam and Göran Bolin). Solsam was renamed to
ClimateWell in 2003, and is today one of the largest companies within advanced
solar energy storage concepts.
In 1993 the first attempts to design a extreme low cost ”soft concentrator”
solar collector was made in cooperation with the state power utility Vattenfall.
This technology has so far collected a large investment in research and
devepoment with a group of products, eight Phd’s, several actual powerplants
being erected. Today this technology are further developed and manufactured by
Solarus AB, and it has recieved many awards over the years (the Swedish
enviromental innovation Price 2010 was the latest).
Gunnar Wilson recieved the SEAS (Swedish solar energy associasion) Achievements Award 2002.
Gunnar Wilson left the operation of the company at 89 years of age. Finsun was
assigned to new ownership in 2009. Today finsun has been renamed to finsun
inresol. The tradition is still to work in the spirit of Gunnar Wilson, one of
the most prominent solar energy innovators.
the Wilson foundation
In honor of mr Wilson, finsun inresol AB, has started a foundation with the major goal to encourage researcher "off road" the mainstream track
awards
SEAS (Swedish solar energy associasion) Achievements Award 2002
memberships
ISES (International Solar Energy Sociaty)
SUF (the Swedish Inventers' Association)
WWF (World Wildlife Foundation)
Desertec Foundation
co founder of
Solsam sunergy AB (today renamed to Climate Well AB)Solarus AB
