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.

[citation needed] 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.

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.