Name: Pete Fine
Title: President
Company: US SolarWorks, LLC
Location: 7 N. Main St., Attleboro, MA 02703
Place of birth: Rehoboth, MA
Family: Two sons age 16 & 18 - older son just got accepted to attend Vanderbilt!
College: Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of CA - Chemistry and Electronic Materials
First job unrelated to your current field: Water purification for hotels and restaurants
First job in current field: R&D at National Semiconductor Inc.
What your firm does now and its plans for the future? We specialize in design and installation of commercial solar systems. Planning to open a residential solar division this spring.
Hobbies: Sailing and tennis
Keys to success: Plan your work and work your plan.
If you had to choose a different profession, what would it be? This is the profession I chose. Allows me to do something meaningful with my life's work. I started in this industry 10 years ago, coming from high tech R&D, working in Silicon Valley. Returned to Attleboro/Rehoboth area to start this business to help homes and businesses adopt renewable energy and energy efficiency.
Now I have started and run US SolarWorks, an offshoot of my previous business, US Technology Works, which I transferred here from Silicon Valley. We have developed numerous commercial and municipal solar installations in the region, helping our clients to offset their electricity usage. This helps the environment, but is also a very economically advantageous way to manage long term energy production. It allows our clients to produce their own electricity, and have a long term set operating cost. Tags: