Renewable Awareness
ITER pursues a more sustainable behaviour form both the Island’s population and the tourist that visit the island of Tenerife now that it is fundamental for the social end economic development of the island and because is absolutely necessary to face Climate Change. The concepts dealt with in each installation and the way to approach them can be adapted to the needs of the participants.
- Web page of the Bioclimatic Houses
- Project of the Bioclimatic Dwellings
- Technological Walkway
- Visitors Centre
Development of the Project
ITER executes the promotion of this project. The Institute includes a dissemination department which coordinates the project and establishes the guidelines for the correct management of these equipments, although its outcome is the result of a multidisciplinary cooperation of investigators and technicians from the institute and of other organizations. In order to fulfil the maximum dissemination capacity, the project focuses in the creation of dissemination equipments that directly combine theory and implementation.
Project summary
The project aims to announce all the research areas related with renewable energies, environment and new technologies in favour of the promotion of a social and touristic awareness where clean energies and new technological improvements converge with the respect for the environment, therefore contributing to sustainable development and to manage future zero CO2 emission scenarios.
Each equipment presents a way to approach both resident population and tourists. They bear the possibility of approaching the same concepts at different levels without necessary having to be interdependent, i.e. the three equipments perfectly complement each other within a same tour but are complete didactic units by themselves.
The technological walkway introduces the concepts visually and very easily to understand. The Visitors Centre encourages a second thought on what has been learnt. The Bioclimatic Dwellings is where the ideas translate into actions, where the concepts learned are applied and are there to experiment and prove that Zero CO2 emissions does not mean less comfort.
The Technological Walkway allows a simple and descriptive approach of the concepts, ideal for an introduction to the subject, The Visitors Centre, on the other hand, encourages the visitors to participate and further the information not only through its circuit of displays but with the organization of more specific events which allow a second thought in what has been learnt.
To complete the tour, the Bioclimatic Dwellings admit the exercise of sensations, go one step further and see that the application of these ideas is possible and confirm that concepts such as bioclimatism, renewable energies integration, energetically self-sufficient and zero CO2 emission do not imply comfort loss.
The three equipments are located within ITER´s installations which perfectly frame them with three Wind Parks and a 24 MW PV solar platform called SOLTEN. The area also includes a Thermal Power Station, another didactic resource and is an excellent area for the installation of renewable energies due to its climatic characteristics.
