Solmeraya was formed only six months ago as a 'spin-off' company of the University of Almeria, with a 200,000 euro loan from the Agencia de Innovacion y Desarrollo de Andalucia (IDEA) (Andalucia Innovation and Development Agency), a regional government agency, as part of a government initiative to provide funds to commercialise new technologies developed in Spanish universities.
The product which Solmeraya is promoting is a second generation technology of photovoltaic cells which are flexible and weigh less than a tenth of traditional solar cells. The idea is to use these specially adapted cells in the agricultural sector to make covers for the small reservoirs dotted around the Almerian countryside, to put on barns and storage buildings and to even to be used to cover parts of greenhouses. Their use as water deposit covers has the added advantage of keeping the temperature of the water down, avoiding evaporation and the formation of algal blooms.
The company is has announced that its research is now in its last phase and they plan to start production by the end of October from provisional premises in Almeria, with plans to move to the new PITA (Almeria Innovation and Technological Park) soon. They already have two orders from companies in Almeria.
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