Abengoa

Abengoa
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Abengoa SA

Type	Public (BMAD: ABG)
Founded	1941
Headquarters	Seville, Spain
Key people	Felipe Benjumea Llorente (Chairman of the board and CEO)
Industry	Technology, engineering
Products	Solar energy and bioenergy devices, IT, water and waste treatment, construction of telecom networks, power stations, infrastructure
Revenue	€3.214 billion (2007)¹
Profit	▲ €120.4 million (2007)¹
Employees	13,608 (2006)¹
Website	www.abengoa.com

Abengoa (BMAD: ABG) is a Spanish multinational corporation, which includes companies in the domains of energy, telecommunications, transportation, and the environment. On September 15, 2007, The Economist reported that Abengoa is looking to enter the concentrating solar power market in the United States.

The company was founded by Javier Benjumea, and is based in Seville, Spain.

1 Green technology
2 Competitors
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

Green technology

Befesa

Befesa is an Abengoa subsidiary, specialising in the integral management of industrial wastes and the generation and management of water.

Joint Venture with Ebro Puleva

Abengoa has joint venture biofuel plants with Ebro Puleva- Dosbio 2010. ²

Abengoa Solar

Abengoa began its involvement in the development of solar technologies in 1984 with the construction of the Solar Almeria Platform in Spain.

Abengoa Solar has announced the award of two R&D projects in the field of Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) by the US Department of Energy that total over $14 million. The goal of the DOE R&D program, working in collaboration with partners such as Abengoa Solar, is to develop C.S.P. technologies that are competitive with conventional energy sources (grid parity) by 2015 ³.