CSP Services’ main activities are optimizing concentrating solar systems and maximizing their heat and power output. Utilizing its wide-ranging experience and know-how, CSP Services has developed specific, high-precision measurement technologies and evaluation tools for all concentrating solar power (CSP) applications. They provide data in the production of high-quality components for solar field installations and details on how their performance can be continuously improved. CSP Services was founded in 2007 as a spin-off company of the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Today it is a globally recognized supplier and partner for quality assessment in all deployment phases of concentrating solar power projects. DLR has been engaged for decades in research and development work for concentrating solar thermal power stations, while CSP Services applies such development results, knowledge and experience in the industrial, technical field. CSP Services successfully offers consultancy and measurement services to reduce technical risks, and to improve project performance and solar power production. This way it optimizes profitability for investors, contractors, operators and owners, and makes concentrating solar power an economic and reliable technology to utilize solar energy and combat climate change. The range of products that CSP Services offers includes geometry and shape measurement systems for mirrors, collectors, concentrators and heliostats; weather stations with solar irradiance sensors, measurement systems for trough receiver tubes, and other specialized equipment for solar field optimization. The offered expert services include unique measurement capabilities for collectors and components, weather data analysis, component certifications, inspection services and acceptance testing for solar fields, concentrating solar power project support and consulting services, performance modeling and prediction, and technical due diligence.