Lauritzen Inc.

Specialties

Lauritzen Inc. brings new ideas to renewable energy with its solar tracker controllers and other innovative solar technology.

History

Established in 2006.

Lauritzen Inc. is the successor to Lauritzen Engineering, founded in 1997 by Mogens Lauritzen. Lauritzen Engineering initially provided microprocessor design services to Silicon Valley technology companies. Starting in 2005, the firm changed focus and began developing products within the renewable energy sector. Renewable energy was a familiar territory to Mr. Lauritzen, who in 1977 led a high school student project that built a trough-​based solar thermal collector.

Meet the Business Owner

Mogens L.

Business Owner

Mogens Lauritzen was born in Denmark. While studying at University of New Hampshire he became alarmed about the prospect of global warming. During the 1990s, Lauritzen was busy experimenting with solar flat plate thermal systems, and added a solar PV system to his home at the dawn of the new century. It was out of those efforts that Lauritzen identified a need for better feedback methods in remote/​distributed energy systems which in turn led to the remote controlled Thor™ Solar Thermal Control system.

Prior to founding Lauritzen Inc., he worked as a manager and consultant at Silicon Valley companies designing micro-​processors. Mogens holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from University of New Hampshire, is a licensed C-​10 and C-​46 contractor, and is the holder of 3 US patents.