ALGAENERGY will participate in the Round table on "Technologies of industrial water purification", to be held on the 27th May 2013 at the headquarters of the Technological Corporation of Andalusia (CTA), with the presentation of Dr. Bernardo Llamas, R&D Director of ALGAENERGY: "Water purification with microalgae".
Students of Biotechnology from the University Francisco de Vitoria of Madrid, visit ALGAENERGY's PTEM plant to learn first hand about its facilities and the technology employed in the cultivation of microalgae.
25/04/2013
ALGAENERGY, selected as a "success story" in the first Conference organised jointly between all the Spanish Technological Platforms from the Energy sector, under the title “CAPABILITIES AND STRENGTHS OF SPANISH COMPANIES: success stories of patented technological developments”. This overall Conference has taken place at the headquarters of the Spanish Office of Patents and Trademarks - OEPM-. As a representative of the bioenergy sector, ALGAENERGY has given a presentation centered on its own patent on biorefineries.
10/04/2013
The CO2ALGAEFIX project has been presented in Bioptima 2013, in Jaen. Within the activities planned for the II Iberoamerican Conference on Biorefineries (2-CIAB), a special session on the CO2ALGAEFIX project has been held on Wednesday 10th of April, in which the valorisation of microalgae biomass has been discussed.
03/04/2013
The consortium of the CO2ALGAEFIX project, led by ALGAENERGY, met in order to discuss the technical progress made to date and to specify next actions. One of these activities is the organization of the course "Culture and Valorization of Biomass" within the summer courses programme organized by the International University of Andalusia which will take place during the month of September in the Monastery of La Cartuja (Seville). The aim of the course is to offer students a complete, deep and updated vision of the latest advances in research, production and applications of microalgae.
25/02/2013
After the success of the algae world congress held in Europe and Asia, ALGAE WORLD has held its edition in Middle East & North Africa (MENA) in Dubai, on the 25 and 26 February 2013. ALGAENERGY has participated as a speaker. Event schedule.
02/01/2013
CIEMAT, IMDEA ENERGY and ALGAENERGY have signed a Framework Agreement through which the three entities have created a Joint Committee to give technical and technological support to activities being developed in the area of production and valorization of biofuels and other value-added by-products from microalgae.
A representative of the EUROPEAN COMMISSION responsible for monitoring the LIFE projects, Ms Filipa Ferrao, visits the microalgae plant being constructed in Arcos de la Frontera (Cadiz) and meets with the consortium of the CO2ALGAEFIX project lead by ALGAENERGY, to review the progress of the programme.
12/12/2012
ALGAENERGY and the SPANISH AQUACULTURE OBSERVATORY FOUNDATION (OESA) have signed a partnership agreement to develop the project "Aquaculture and Climate Change" whose objective is to assess the role of microalgae in greenhouse gas mitigation, mainly CO2, in those species that are grown in the aquaculture sector.
11/12/2012
Representatives of the Spanish MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND THE ENVIRONMENT have visited ALGAENERGY's pilot plant PTEM with a view to evaluating the possible interest of microalgae in agroindustrial projects.
21/11/2012
ALGAENERGY has received a second prize for the best initiative in the category of SMEs and Private Entities of the XIII Sustainability and Environment Awards, organized by Expansion, Garrigues and Wolters Kluwer, with the collaboration of Bankinter and E.ON. The recognition is given by the MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND THE ENVIRONMENT, Hon. Mr. Miguel Arias Cañete, and has been collected by Juan Pablo Jiménez, Production and Sales Manager of ALGAENERGY.
14/11/2012
ALGAENERGY has participated in the IV CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY AND MICROBIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY, held in Salamanca from 14-16 November 2012, with a presentation by Dr. Bernardo Llamas, ALGAENERGY's R&D Director, on the "Pre-industrial scale microalgae production with energy purposes". There has been other participations of renowned scientists in this field of science, as Prof. Miguel García Guerrero.
02/11/2012
CANAL SUR RADIO interview Dr. Bernardo Llamas, R&D Director of ALGAENERGY, in connection with the demonstration plant that the company is building in Arcos, under the LIFE+ Programme of the European Union.
Listen to the interview (in Spanish)
23/10/2012
The European TV Channel "ARTE" specializing in high quality documentaries broadcasted in the European continent, interviews ALGAENERGY scientists and makes a reportage at the company's technological microalgae plant PTEM with a view to show its audience how the biofuel of the future, derived from microalgae, is developing.
ALGAENERGY participates in the Summer Course "Culture and revalorization of microalgae for energy and non-energy purposes", which takes place at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, on 9 and 10 July 2012. (See agenda)
Conservationist magazine RedLife and the Fundación Caja Rural del Sur, for the sixth consecutive year, have chosen what, in view of almost 6,000 readers voting and a jury of expert biologists, scientists, journalists and entrepreneurs, are the TEN BEST IDEAS TO SAVE NATURE, one of them being the CO2ALGAEFIX project developed by ALGAENERGY in Cadiz.
07/05/2012
The first technical meeting of the CO2ALGAEFIX project has taken place at ALGAENERGY's headquarters, being attended by representatives of Iberdrola, Exeleria, universities of Almeria and Seville, and Madrid Network, pooling in this programme led by ALGAENERGY.
25-26/04/2012
ALGAENERGY has participated in the “EUROPEAN ALGAE BIOMASS 2012” conferences that have taken place in London on 25-26 April 2012, with the presentation by Dr. Bernardo Llamas, R&D Director, titled “Microalgae cultivation: gaps and R&D efforts to scaling up to an industrial level”
Spain's "Radio Nacional de España" interviews Mr Augusto Rodríguez-Villa, President of ALGAENERGY, at its experimentation plant PTEM, for the program "España Directo" presented by Mamen Asencio
Members of the CENIT VIDA project consortium (Iberdrola Ingeniería & Construcción, CT Ingenieros, Aqualia and the Architecture Studio Cervera&Pioz), visit ALGAENERGY's pilot plant (PTEM) to learn about the technologies used for microalgae production in order to discuss solutions for the BIOCITY.
BIOPLAT, the Spanish Biomass Technology Platform, appoints ALGAENERGY as new Coordinator for the Algae Working Group, during its annual meeting held on the 15th December 2011. ALGAENERGY will be represented in this responsibility by its Vice President, Juan Luis Mato.
17/11/2011
On November 17th, the LIFE+ CO2ALGAEFIX consortium held their kickoff meeting in Arcos de la Frontera (Cadiz), where ALGAENERGY's pilot plant for the production of microalgae will be located, on grounds of IBERDROLA's Cogeneration Plant.
11/11/2011
Students from Biology at the University Juan Carlos I (Madrid) visit ALGAENERGY's Technological Platform for the Experimentation with Microalgae (PTEM) at Madrid-Barajas, to see firsthand the studies conducted by the company in the biotechnology of microalgae field.
Radio Euskadi, in its scientific program "The Mechanics of the Snail" directed by Eva Caballero, interviews Mr. Augusto Rodríguez-Villa, President of ALGAENERGY
SITE VISIT: attendants to the congress above visit ALGAENERGY's Technological Platform for the Experimentation with Microalgae (PTEM) at the Madrid-Barajas airport.
ALGAENERGY introduces the CENIT VIDA project (Integral Valorisation of Algae), led by IBERDROLA, during the Technical Conference on Algae Biomass organized by the Spanis Technological Platform of Biomass (BIOPLAT) in Gran Canary (Canary Islands)
20/10/2010
Juan Mato, Vice President of ALGAENERGY, and Juan Pablo Jiménez, Sales Manager of the same, make a presentation on the "Microalgae Cultivation for Aquaculture" during the conferences "Biodiversity and Aquaculture" held at the National Natural Sciences Museum, in the framework of the Parallel Activities Programme of the exhibition "Aquaculture? Discover it".
