Seaweed Energy
Buggypower [website] located in Spain and Portugal, is a biotechnology company specialized in the design, construction and operation of microalgae production units.
The company's former facility is a research and development pilot plant in the industrial center of Lorquí.
- Technologies showroom and facilities for R&D projects
- Use of environmentally friendly technologies for sanitation and facility maintenance (O3, UV, etc.)
- Development of products with microalgae for food and feed and product conservation strategies
- Development of biomass hydrothermal liquefaction systems for obtaining biofuels and fossil oil derivates through biorefinery strategies.
The latter is The Porto Santo production unit, in partnership with Electricity Company of Madeira (EEM), is one of Europe's largest closed-system biotechnology production sites located in an island in the North Atlantic, where temperature variations are minimal and sea water is more pure and wild.
It features:
- 1100 cubic meters
- 2,870 closed photobioreactors 8 meters high
- Air-lift system · Average annual prodution: 60t of dry biomass
- Optimized sequential arrangement for capturing sunlight
- Partnership with Electricity Company of Madeira (EEM)
- Proprietary production technology
Buggypower received the Innovation and Business Innovation Award 2018 by the European Association of Economy and Competitiveness.
America's weekly investigative journalism program '60 Minutes' highlighted the industry on July 15th, 2018:
Seaweed farming and its surprising benefits; it may be thought of as a nuisance, but an increasing number of fishermen, scientists and consumers are seeing it as a solution: Link