The Center for Biologically-Inspired Design at Georgia Tech is a key collaborator in the recently awarded 2.8 million dollar DOE grant to GTRI for innovative solar panel designs. Using the biologically-inspired design methodology pioneered by CBID, this team will lead a multidisciplinary design effort to use biological principles to reduce wind loading and simplify the mechanisms that attach solar panels to structures. This innovative design method involves students, engineers, and biologists in multidisciplinary teams to identify biological solutions, translate these solutions to engineered devices and determine how to scale up production to meet the goals of DOE's SunShot Initiative: a 75% reduction in solar cost before the end of the decade. Collaboration with Georgia’s solar power industry helps to assure an immediate impact of this technology. The effort is lead by Joseph Goodman (GTRI). Jeannette Yen and Marc Weissburg at CBID will direct the BID design teams.