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Its leading company is Abengoa Solar, and its activity is focused on the design, promotion, financial closing, construction and exploitation of electric power plants, utilizing the sun as the primary energy source. It has the knowledge and technology for solar thermoelectric power plants: central receiving systems, cylindrical-parabolic collectors and parabolic dishes, as well as concentrated and unconcentrated solar photovoltaic plants.
With Abengoa Bioenergy as its leading company, it is dedicated to the production and development of biofuels for transportation, bioethanol and biodiesel, among others, that utilize biomass as the raw material (cereals, cellulosic biomass, and oleaginous seeds). Biofuels are used to produce ETBE (a gasoline additive), or in direct blends with gasoline or gas oil. As renewable energy sources, biofuels decrease CO2 emissions and contribute to security and diversification in the energy supply, reducing dependence on fossil fuels used for automobiles and collaborating in compliance with the Kyoto Protocol.
Befesa Environment, leader of Abengoa's Environmental Services, focuses its activity on providing environmental services to industry and in the construction of environmental infrastructures, developing the activities of aluminum waste recycling, zinc recycling, industrial waste management and water generation and management.
Telvent, leader of Abengoa's businesses in the Information Technologies segment, specializes in high-value-added solutions in four industrial sectors (Energy, Traffic, Transportation and Environment). Its technology allows companies to make real-time business decisions by employing control and data acquisition systems, together with advanced operational applications, which provide the company with secure and effective information.
Abeinsa is Abengoa's leader in the business group dedicated to engineering, construction and maintenance of electrical, mechanical and instrumental infrastructures in the energy, industry, transportation and service sectors. It also promotes, builds and exploits conventional industrial power plants (co-generation and combined-cycle), renewable energy-based plants (bioethanol, biodiesel, biomass, wind, solar and geothermal), and manages networks and turnkey projects in telecommunications.