Heliogen is a California based company that is combining ordinary materials like rocks and mirrors with artificial intelligence to revolutionize the solar industry and make industrial processes more eco-friendly. The alternative energy space has been heating up this past decade. With money pouring in from both the private and public sector, the industry is poised to get even hotter. But few businesses in the space can bring the heat like Heliogen, a Southern California concentrated solar power company. Concentrated solar power (CSP) is generated by coordinating a series of mirrors or lenses to reflect a large area of sunlight at ...

The Solar Energy Generating Systems (SEGS) facility in California’s Mojave Desert retired five of its solar plants (SEGS 3 through 7) in July 2021 and plans to retire a sixth (SEGS 8) in September 2021, based on information submitted to U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) and published in its Preliminary Electric Generator Inventory. After SEGS 8 is retired, only one solar thermal unit at SEGS will remain operating (SEGS 9). SEGS, which began operating in 1984, is the world’s longest-operating solar thermal power facility. Solar thermal power plants use mirrors to focus sunlight onto a receiver, which ...