Scientific Research Areas
Main Scientific Research Areas
Renewable Energy, Environment and Water resources 
1. Description of the scientific domain
The Canary Islands is an ultraperipherical and fragmented region with limited water and power resources and with an economy mostly dependent on the tourist activities, the development of these areas have allowed the region to face the challenges that the progress has set out in the last decades.
2. Description of main CoE
CANARY ISLANDS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (ITC)
In the area of Research and Development, the Canary Islands have, together with other Technology Centres, the Canary Islands Institute of Technology (ITC). It is the representative in the Canary Islands of the Network of Innovation Relay Centres (SEIRC), Network of Business Centres (EBN) and Regional Economy Agencies (EURADA) and has as its main purpose to encourage interaction between those bodies which are involved in the technological, industrial and business process: the Canary Islands Government, the Universities and other Centres of Research and Development, publicly and privately-owned companies and the Agencies of the Spanish State and the European Union. Its purpose is to serve as an example in the process of transfer of Research and Development to demonstration and production and is mainly based on applied research groups in the Canarian universities.
The Institute is at present at the leading edge on the world scene in the development of the management and use of renewable energy sources and the desalination of seawater. Their R&D lines are:
- Electricity production by renewable energy sources.
- Fresh Water production (water desalination) using renewable energy systems.
- Cold and ice production using renewable energy systems.
- Application of renewable energy systems in buildings and agriculture.
- Development of small to medium size wind energy systems (incl. wind-diesel).
- Testing of solar thermal collectors and systems.
- Penetration of renewable energy systems in weak electrical grids.
- Development and evaluation of (non conventional) desalination and water treatment systems.
- Production of hydrogen by renewable energy systems.
- Sustainable energy and water management.
Others activities areas of this Institute are:
- Physiology, cultivation, production and improvement of marine plants.
- Design and implementation of advanced information technology systems: Multimedia and Medical Computing.
- Applied Biological Research.
- Assessment for Technological Entrepreneurs.
- Knowledge-based Economy.
- Technology transfer and innovation.
- Technology-based start ups incubation.
Canary Islands Institute of Technology (ITC) - Download the brochure (PDF)
Contact Details:
Canary Islands Institute of Technology (ITC)
Plaza de Sixto Machado, 3
38009 Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Ph: +34 922 56 89 00
Fax: +34 922 56 89 01
E-mail: seirc@itccanarias.org
URL: http://www.itccanarias.org
Playa de Pozo Izquierdo s/n
35119 Santa Lucía
Las Palmas
Ph: +34 928 72 75 00
Fax: +34 928 72 75 17
Email: seirc@itccanarias.org
URL: http://www.itccanarias.org
THE TECHNOLOGICAL AND RENEWABLE ENERGY INSTITUTE (ITER)
The Tenerife Island Council created the REI in 1990 with the aim of enhancing the development of systems that use renewable energies and coordinating R+D energy projects that are carried out in Tenerife. The center was conceived of as an area of experimentation and information, where different projects that are undertaken by the Institute, such as the Wind Farms, the Wind Tunnel and the Bioclimatic houses are located. Its facilities are situated on the Industrial Estate of Granadilla, on the south coast of the island of Tenerife, with a surface area of 400,000 m2.
The majority of the projects carried out by ITER are financed by the European Commission, although many others are funded by local, national and overseas agencies. Many of these are related to the use of renewable energy sources while others are connected with the satisfaction of local requirements on an island of volcanic origin, such as research into water resources on The Islands and seismic and volcanic monitoring.
ITER, as co-ordinator, together with the Solar Energy Institute of the Universidad Politécnica in Madrid and BP Solar have installed in Granadilla a 480kw photovoltaic concentration plant based on the EUCLIDES prototype, the largest of its kind in the world.
The area of renewable energies is divided in 3 Departments: Wind, Integration and Thermal Solar energy. They are carrying out research, development and demonstration projects.
Other Areas:
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Environmental Area
The main research trend is the searching of the seismic-volcanic activity of the Canary Islands, applying geochemical methods for the volcanic monitoring.
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Engineering Area
This area is divided in 2 department: Electronics and Computing. Both support the activities carried out by the rest of departments of the Institute.
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Dissemination and Publication Area
It has 1 department, Dissemination, it disseminates the projects and activities that the Institute develops, as well as, the environmental sensibility.
The building housing the ITER facilities is a bio-climatic construction located on the Granadilla Industrial Estate (Tenerife), where the institute has an area of 365,000 m², which constitutes the ideal space to carry out all kinds of projects related to alternative energies.
Contact Details:
Technological and Renewable Energy Institute (ITER)
Parque Eólico.
Polígono Industrial de Granadilla, s/n.
38611 San Isidro-Granadilla de Abona
S/C de Tenerife
(España)
Ph: +34 922 391 000
Fax: +34 922 391 001
URL: http://www.iter.es
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