Company History
Lauritzen Inc. is the successor to Lauritzen Engineering, founded by Mogens Lauritzen in 1997.
At first Lauritzen Engineering provided microprocessor design services to Silicon Valley technology companies, but starting in 2005, the firm changed course and began developing products within the renewable energy sector. Renewable energy was not an unfamiliar territory to Lauritzen, because he lead a group of high school students, back in 1977, to build a trough based solar thermal collector.
While studying at University of New Hampshire in the early 1980’s, he became fascinated with the notion of global warming, and began worrying his cousins and other family members with the dire forecast of rising sea levels.
All during the 1990’s, Lauritzen was busy experimenting with solar flat plate thermal systems, and finally added a solar PV system at the beginning 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 lead to the Thor Solar Thermal Control system.
Today’s primary goal of Lauritzen Inc is to develop new and better control technology for renewable energy systems. Lauritzen uses the self coined RACE acronym to describe the necessary attributes of such systems: reliable, accountable, controllable and efficient.
The current product line is focused on three markets, namely the Solar Thermal, Solar Tracking, and Wind Turbines, - and we have no intention of stopping with that!