Product Review

Solargenix Energy Offers Leading-Edge Solar-Thermal Technology

Power Generation

The Power Generation Division of Solargenix is picking up where the Luz Company left off when it went bankrupt in 1991. Luz built nine solar electric generating system (SEGS) power plants using high-temperature, solar-trough collectors in the Mohave Desert in the 1980s and early ‘90s, with a total generating capacity of 354 megawatts (MW)—see

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Published May 1, 2004

(2004, May 1). Solargenix Energy Offers Leading-Edge Solar-Thermal Technology. Retrieved from https://www.buildinggreen.com/product-review/solargenix-energy-offers-leading-edge-solar-thermal-technology