Concentrated Solar Power technology (CSP) offers a possibility of electricity generation that is ideally suited to large industrial applications. SCHOTT Solar is one of the world's leading providers of a key component of this technology – the receiver.

In the field of CSP, SCHOTT Solar develops, manufactures and markets highly efficient receivers, a key component for solar power plants utilising parabolic trough technology. Along with the first power plants of Nevada Solar One near Las Vegas and Andasol in Andalusia, SCHOTT Solar is also supplying receivers for the desert power project DESERTEC among others. Receiver manufacture takes place in Mitterteich, Germany, as well as in Aznalcóllar, Spain and in Albuquerque, New Mexico in the USA.