SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, July 5. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Cabildo de Tenerife, through the Insular Water Council, and the University of La Laguna (ULL), have formalized a collaboration agreement through which they will develop a research project, called ‘FOTOEDAR’, through which it is proposed self-supply optimization of the Adeje-Arona Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP).
The project contemplates the study of energy expenditure through analysis models of the facilities, operations and consumption of the plant.
“With the implementation of this project we intend to reduce the ecological footprint of the purification activity, and therefore the cost of the electricity bill that it entails”, the Minister of Sustainable Development and Fight against Climate Change of the Cabildo, Javier Rodríguez Medina.
The councilor also stressed that the collaboration with the ULL translates into “the promotion of the integration of renewable energies that contribute to energy efficiency, receiving technology transfer and knowledge that allow improving the current situation of purification in the island of Tenerife”, all with an eye, he said, to “achieving lower energy consumption and lower emission of pollutants in line with the objectives of sustainable development and more specifically that relating to guaranteeing access to affordable energy, safe, sustainable and modern for all with photovoltaic energy and batteries”.
This project will contemplate the analysis of the energy consumption of the plant and the simulation of the optimal configuration of the photovoltaic plant with and without batteries, as well as in direct connection to the WWTP or through the use of the 20 kilowatt network.
This project will be developed through the research team led by Ricardo Guerrero from the Physics Department of the ULL.
