Sunecoenergy

The SunEco team, has been actively dealing with algae from an environmental remediation standpoint for nearly two decades and from an oil production standpoint for several years. This important combination of knowledge, of both algae and large scale water treatment systems, uniquely positions SunEco to develop large scale, cost efficient, algae cultivation and harvesting systems. The SunEco process was developed over a multi-year period, including two years in a pilot scale plant, and is exclusively licensed to SunEco Energy for commercialization. Building on the years and millions of dollars of research conducted by the United States Department of Energy in the Aquatic Species program and at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the SunEco team was able to selectively supplement the existing body of work with its own knowledge of the algae organism in order to achieve oil production higher than previously achieved resulting in a significant unit cost advantage. SunEco’s in-depth understanding of the microalgae organism, and particularly how it behaves under certain conditions, allows the company to utilize naturally occurring algal species, without genetic modification, to produce and retain lipids which are the building blocks for the harvested oil. Rather than modify the organism, SunEco is able to modify the algal environment to cause the organism to behave in the desired manner – namely the production and retention of lipids, or fats, used to make oil.