
The Research and Technological Development Division of the Canary Islands Institute of Technology (ITC) constitutes one of the two working group of the ITC, which is a public company owned by the Canary Islands Government (Spain). The main objective of the R&D Division, which has a staff of more of 60 people (industrial, aeronautical and telecommunication engineers, physicists), is to foster the industrial and sustainable development of the Canaries and the countries around it (Africa and Macaronesia area) in the field of renewable energies, water technologies, bioengineering, software and medical engineering. Besides technical services, the Division currently carries out R+D activities in the fields of (i) water management and energy efficiency, (ii) innovation and sustainable development, (iii) instrumentation, (iv) software, control and metrology, (v) calibration solar radiation and solar thermal systems, (vi) wind energy exploitation, (vii) development and integration of systems, (viii) water treatment technologies, (ix) stand-alone systems (incl. technology transfer to developing countries).
Energy and Water Departments have implemented significant work on the renewable energy sources (RES) and small desalination units coupling, to prove their technical matching, improve and optimize their operation and reliability, and to promote the technology in remote and off-grid areas. They have accumulated more than 18 years of experience in the development of solutions for the ENERGY and WATER supply to urban, peri-urban/rural/remote areas and for industrial purposes. ITC has participated in several EU projects such as PRODES, SODAMEE, DESSOL, SDAWES, ADIRA, CLIMATIQUE, STORIES, etc related to these topics.
Besides that, ITC manages the ‘Atlante’ Supercomputer with which the Scientific & Technological Computing Department can develop projects that require handling big datasets, like meteorological data (Numerical Weather Prediction models (MM5 and WRF)).
TEAM MEMBERS

Baltasar Peñate Suárez

Juan Antonio de la Fuente

Rafael Nebot Medina

Salvador Suárez

Paula Moreno Fajardo

Marco Galluzzi
