Sure, Tom Brady is playing in his 10th Super Bowl, but Scott Franklin is making a fourth appearance at the big game. And he’s not even a football player.
Actually, it’s the fourth year that Franklin’s company, Lumos Solar, will have a presence at the Super Bowl through its products. The Lafayette-based company integrated solar into a canopy at the NRG Stadium in Houston at the 2017 Super Bowl and worked on other projects at the 2019 and 2020 games.
Franklin, the company’s president and CEO, was in Tampa on Wednesday and Thursday to make sure the Lumos solar structures were in place and working for the crowds at the activities surrounding the matchup between Brady’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Kansas City Chiefs.
The Tampa Electric Company bought 24 “SolarZones,” a stand-alone shade structure with a solar-powered charging station for laptops and phones and a built-in table and benches. Lumos Solar launched the product last year just as the coronavirus broke out. The company quickly changed the table’s dimensions to ensure that four people can be seated 6 feet apart.
Franklin said The Tampa electric utility plans to make 12 of the SolarZones a permanent part of a renewable energy demonstration site.
“It’s really an honor to be part of that. When we started the company it was really to facilitate the use and adoption of solar,” Franklin said. “Getting to be part of a mainstream event like the Super Bowl with a utility company, it’s sort of realizing our mission as a company. It’s not a fringe thing up in the mountains with some small system.”
Franklin started Lighthouse Solar, an installation company, and Lumos Solar in 2005 in Nederland. He was a professional rock climber who also designed climbing gear, shoes and other equipment when he decided to make a change.
“I had two young kids and I had spent my entire life in the outdoor industry and climbing world. I just felt I wanted to do something that is part of the world,” Franklin said. “I wanted to do something I felt was helping move things in the right direction.”
Lumos designs and produces canopies, carports, awnings and other structures that provide shade, shelter from the weather and solar-powered energy. Franklin said the modular systems are “kind of like Lego building blocks.”
The company also works with architects and builders to integrate solar panels into structures. The SolarZone is being used by some restaurants. Franklin said he hopes to get schools interested in the product.
The installation company closed in 2015, and Lumos moved to Lafayette last year.
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