International energy company moves HQ to Fort Collins

FORT COLLINS — Husk Power Systems Inc., a rural distributed utility company, is relocating its headquarters to Fort Collins and has closed on a $20 million financing round.

The company is now located at the Colorado State University Powerhouse Energy Campus.

Husk Power Systems operates more than 75 mini-grids in Asia and Africa.

The company builds decentralized power plants and has distribution networks in India and Tanzania. Its system uses solar energy during the day and batteries and a biomass system at night. The biomass system uses rice byproducts to create energy. Each power…