Abengoa Solar is a specialized company working in the development of solar technologies and the promotion of solar power plants. It was formed based on the traditional solar activity of Abengoa that began in the early 80´s.

Since then Abengoa Solar has been involved in many R&D projects aimed to improve the processes and components required to produce electricity from solar energy. Abengoa Solar therefore has extensive experience in solar thermal installations, including central receiver systems, parabolic troughs and parabolic dishes. With its investment in Europe’s most modern solar test facility, the Plataforma Solar de Sanlúcar la Mayor (PSSM) near Seville (Spain), Abengoa Solar NT can offer a unique test facility, adding a worth of several million Euro to the project, making a big effort to go on developing and improving new technologies.

As coordinator Abengoa Solar can rely on a strong management and administration with a lot of expertise and experience in managing large projects on international scale.

The German Aerospace Center DLR is Germany's largest engineering sciences research institution, employing about 5.700 people in its various research centers.

In its Solar Research Division about 50 scientists, engineers and technicians are working in the fields of power tower, parabolic trough, dish/Stirling, thermal storage and solar-chemical processes. In the tower technology DLR is leader in the air receiver technology for either Rankine or Brayton cycles.

The main expertise of DLR in the project is in the design of solar receivers, optimization of heliostats, simulation of solar power cycles, and the evaluation of components and complete systems.

GEA Technika Cieplna (GTP) was established in 1994 and is today a part of GTP Process Equipment Division, which belongs to the GEA Group. The GEA Group is a globally successful technology group with operating companies in around 50 countries.

GEA Technika Cieplna is working in the field of heat exchangers. The focus of the company is the selection, design and production of high efficiency heat exchangers, based on elliptical and circular tubes, of finned or smooth type, made of stainless and carbon acid resistant steel. GTP already has some experience on the field of the solar recovery system and since 2005 is a partner in the project SolHyCo.

With its manufacturing capabilities with specialized welders and the necessary manufacturing infrastructure GTP is interested in production and delivery of solar receivers based on tube technology.

Turbomach has accumulated knowledge and experience in technical design, application engineering and manufacturing of combined heat and power plants and advanced cooling systems for more than 25 years.

Turbomach is the European leader in the manufacturing of turbo generator packages in the range of 1 to 20 MW with a total installed capacity exceeding 4'393 MW. Turbomach packages industrial-type turbines manufactured by Solar Turbines Incorporated, renowned for its high quality and prestigious products, with over 12'000 turbines operating all over the world.

New Energy Algeria (NEAL) was founded in July 2002 by the Algerian companies Sonatrach, Sonelgaz and the private company SIM as a new, renewable energy joint venture company. NEAL looks at the development of solar, wind, biomass, and photovoltaic (PV) energy production.

The first project launched and developed by NEAL and now under construction is the 150-MW hybrid natural gas/solar power plant at Hassi R’mel. The aims of NEAL include the expansion of renewable energy use, green power trade and a solar electricity export to Europe. Feasibility studies of two submarine cables linking Algeria to Europe have already been performed.

Algeria is the first North African country to establish a feed-in law for renewable energies. This law is special since it includes incentives for solar-gas hybrid plants.