FACILITIES

ALGAENERGY's Strategic Plan has envisaged the progressive scale up of its R&D and Production facilities, since scientific and technological problems that may be encountered by some of the Plants do not only vary according to engineering parameters but also depend on the volume of a particular crop and purpose for which it is intended.

The first culture facility, a mobile laboratory with 240 litre capacity – already much larger than in a laboratory – was completed in 2009 and its technology was fine-tuned over the course of 2010.  In 2010, ALGAENERGY designed its new Experimentation Plant, with a capacity of 40,000 litres, whose construction at Madrid-Barajas Airport was completed in May, 2011.

The next phase of ALGAENERGY’s Strategic Plan is a 1,000,000 litre capacity Production Plant in Arcos de la Frontera (Cadiz), covering an area of 10,000 m2 and with an estimated production of 100 tm of microalgal biomass per year, a construction project that will be developed in phases and completed in 2013.

Alongside these expansion plans, ALGAENERGY also produces microalgal biomass at the Las Palmerillas Plant, which is located in Almeria.