ACCIONA shows its global offering of products and services at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi

The company's stand at the summit was visited yesterday by Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Asturias.

ACCIONA shows its proposals for sustainable development in Energy, Infrastructures and Water.

ACCIONA shows its global offering of products and services in Energy, Infrastructures and Water at the World Future Energy Summit (WFES), inaugurated yesterday in Abu Dhabi. The company's stand was visited yesterday morning by Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Asturias, Don Felipe and Doña Letizia, who were greeted by ACCIONA executives including the International General Manager, Frank Gelardin; the General Manager of Corporate Development and Strategy of the Energy Division, Alberto De Miguel, and the International General Manager of ACCIONA Infrastructures, Adalberto Claudio.

During their visit, the Prince and Princess learnt about ACCIONA's latest developments in the different renewable energies and the characteristics of the AW-3000 wind turbine. Don Felipe was interested in the logistics of turbine transport and turbine blade manufacturing processes. He also remembered his visit to the straw-fired biomass plant in Sangüesa (Navarre).

World leaders in different business areas

ACCIONA is a world leader in renewable energies with almost 9,000 MW installed for its own account or for third parties, in the main clean technologies. It has set up 271 wind farms, 79 hydroelectric plants, three biomass plants, three concentrating solar power plants and a large number of photovoltaic facilities of different types. The group also owns biodiesel and bioethanol production plants.

In addition to its own developments, ACCIONA Energy offers its clients its twenty years' experience in the development, engineering, construction, operation and maintenance of renewable energy facilities; manufacturing and sales of wind turbines employing proprietary technology; energy production and sales and the processing of CDM projects with carbon credit trading.

ACCIONA Infrastructure is an industry leader on the cutting edge of R&D, using the most advanced techniques, assuring the highest quality and maintaining the utmost respect for the environment. Its business activities include all aspects of construction, from engineering to works and maintenance. It also manages public works awards, particularly in the area of transport (motorways and railways) and building, including hospitals and schools. The company is a pioneer in eco-efficient building.

ACCIONA Agua is a leader in desalination using reverse osmosis, with four of the largest plants in the world, and in drinking water treatment plants, waste water treatment plants and tertiary treatment for reuse. The company's mission is to provide global solutions to sustainable development in the water sector across the world through innovation in the design, construction and operation of water treatment and desalination plants.