The SunEco Advantage is knowledge.

The SunEco management, including our technology provider Global ReNergy Systems, 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 by Global ReNergy Systems 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.

The SunEco Advantage is Oil Production.

Encouraged by the prospect of filling gaps in the government research, a laboratory scale device was utilized to test the new concepts. After very encouraging laboratory results, the company built a pilot scale facility in Chino, California. At a scale of 1/135th of an acre foot, the pilot plant has produced repeatable results involving 18 harvests over a two year period. In addition to enabling the company to enhance and improve its process, the pilot plant afforded SunEco the differentiation of oil production in barrels rather than beakers.

Having larger quantities of algae oil set the company apart from others in the industry with ideas and concepts, but no oil production. SunEco’s oil production from the pilot plant has allowed us to test the oil in numerous applications including some very successful on-road tests with a large interstate trucking company. Oil production sets us apart today, and will continue to let us outdistance the competition in the years ahead as we scale up production facilities to produce large quantities of high quality renewable oil.

The SunEco Advantage is Time.

SunEco Energy has had the lead time necessary to prove and optimize its technology in a pilot scale application and has taken the steps necessary to reduce the execution risk of a large scale deployment of the process. SunEco’s lead time advantage in algae oil production sets us apart from the growing number of other firms pursuing the potential of algae.

SunEco intends to maintain its leadership advantage by rapidly moving to a large scale deployment of the algae oil technology in the United States and around the world. SunEco is currently developing a large scale project in southern California which will serve as the world’s first large scale commercially viable production of algae oil. SunEco is also in discussions with various parties for deployment of our algae oil technology elsewhere around the world.

The SunEco Advantage is Scale.

The SunEco process was designed with scale in mind. Using naturally occurring algal strains, SunEco can utilize large open ponds for the growth medium. Drawing from knowledge of the water treatment industry, the SunEco process equipment has been designed to economically handle large volumes of alginated water. The large scale and high productivity of the process allows SunEco to produce at a very competitive unit rate.