What was Luz International? What are SEGS?
Luz International was the solar technology company that successfully designed, built, financed, and operated nine solar energy plants in Southern California between 1984 and 1991. Luz International remains to this day, as the only company in the world to have built large-scale commercial solar thermal projects – the 350 MW SEGS projects in the Mojave Desert – which are still in operation today. SEGS is the acronym for Solar Electricity Generating Stations, which was the name given to the type of power plants built by Luz International in the Mojave Desert in Southern California between 1984 and 1991. Fifteen of the key members of the Luz International engineering and commercial team that built those SEGS are now key members of the BrightSource team.
Luz International was the solar technology company that successfully designed, built, financed, and operated nine solar energy plants in Southern California between 1984 and 1991. Luz International remains to this day the only company in the world to have built large-scale commercial solar thermal projects – the 350 MW SEGS projects in the Mojave Desert – which are still in operation today. SEGS is the acronym for Solar Electricity Generating Stations, which was the name given to the type of power plants built by Luz International in the Mojave Desert in Southern California between 1984 and 1991. Fifteen of the key members of the Luz International engineering and commercial team that built those SEGS are now key members of the BrightSource team.
