Owner is Borges Blanques, an Abantia Group (47.5%), COMSA RENOVABLES (47.5%) and Institut Català d’Energia (5%) joint venture.

The plant employs 40 people in the operations and about 50 indirect jobs are engaged in the extraction and transport of biomass, over its 25-year lifetime.

Since the publication of the Spanish Royal Decree 661/2007,[6] solar thermal energy plants were taken in consideration for development and several projects followed construction and operation.

Beside, the most solar projects and plants are developed in the southern Spain territory, in consideration of more daily energy and a better winter insolation.

The hybridization technology compensates the lower winter season solar production in northern Spain.

The plant is composed of a parabolic trough system with a thermal oil loop and in series two 22 MWth dual biomass and natural gas combustion unit.

While traditional solar power facilities need to employ expensive energy storage techniques to ensure continuous operation in all weather conditions, the biomass hybrid configuration has eliminated that need.

The SF parabolic troughs absorb solar energy, heating a thermal oil up to 400 °C (752 °F).

When the solar portion of the plant is not operational (at night or when the sunlight is insufficient), the largest biomass boiler heats the thermal oil to 400 °C (752 °F).

At night or in completely cloudy days (long periods without radiation) the fuel used by the boilers will be the biomass.

The choice of this power level for the boiler is motivated by being able to achieve at least 50% of the workload of the turbine running at night.

[10][11] The MARC-2 turbine operates in the 4-10 MW power range and accepts up to 90 bars (1,300 psi), 520 °C (968 °F) max steam inlet.

The MARC-6 turbine operates in the 15-40 MW power range and accepts up to 121 bars (1,750 psi), 530 °C (986 °F) max steam inlet.

The hybridization model allows a continuous power generation, resulting in different ways of production, depending on the time of day, the weather and the season of the year.

This installation just stops on summer nights, to not exceed the quota for biomass burning established by the regulations.

The capacity of the plant is sufficient to provide ecofriendly power for about 27,000 Spanish households, avoiding 24,500 tonnes of CO2 emissions.

A pilot project started in 2010 with the aim of studying the feasibility of poplar trees for biomass generation.

Three different clones of poplar were cultured in the plantation of which one has proven to be viable for energy recovery through biomass boilers (heat).