| Abengoa Solar | |
| Type: | Private |
| Location City: | Sanlúcar la Mayor |
| Location Country: | Spain |
| Area Served: | Global |
| Industry: | Solar power |
| Parent: | Abengoa |
| Homepage: | www.abengoasolar.com |
Abengoa Solar (formerly Solúcar Energía[1]) is a subsidiary of Abengoa. Its primary activities include designing, promotion, financing attainment, construction and operation of solar power stations that use photovoltaics, concentrated photovoltaics, or concentrated solar thermal technologies.
R&D investment:Over 42.4 million euros were invested in R&D in 2011 and a total over 150 million euros since 2007.
Patent rights:Given the importance of R&D, legal protection of industrial and intellectual property advancements is critical. The company, therefore, holds priority rights to various key inventions. 115 CSP and PV technology patent applications were registered as of May 2012.
Abengoa Solar owns Europe's first commercially operating concentrating solar power plant, the PS10 Solar Power Plant, that use the solar power tower technology, a form of concentrated solar thermal technology. The Spanish plant was featured in an episode of World's Strangest on the SciFi network and James May's Big Ideas on the BBC.