Energy: Solar ‘shift’ at SERI: The still young Solar Energy Research Institute is training its sights on short-term objectives

Emerging from an administrative shake-up and a shift in planning, the U.S. Government´s leading solar research center no longer sees solar power as far off in the nation´s future. “Solar is important right now,” says Denis Hayes, the new director of the Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI) in Golden, Colo.