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Albert Rose
The Association of Centers for the Promotion of Excellence (CEX) organized on November 26 the fifth edition of the QIA awards (Quality Innovation Awards). The company Land, Water and Dams, housed in the Móstoles Business Incubator, an initiative that has the participation of the URJC, has been awarded in the category of "Circular economy innovation and zero carbon footprint".
Land, Water and Dams is an engineering consultancy specializing in dam safety, hydrometeorological networks and remote sensing systems applied to civil engineering. Precisely, his work has been awarded by the EMB-SAT project, a platform for remote sensing services to improve the management of dams and reservoirs.
Enrique Giménez, an associate member of the project, says that remote sensing consists of taking advantage of the images of the earth captured by the satellites of the European Space Agency to process the amount of data that is obtained and thus obtain useful information applicable to civil engineering, such as the management of dams and reservoirs.
Land, Water and Dams originated through an incubation project with the European Space Agency and the Community of Madrid within the ESA BIC program. It was more than two years ago when they arrived at the Móstoles Business Incubator after having passed through several centers.
“The experience in the nursery has been very good. We have been able to carry out our work in a very effective way”, says Enrique Giménez. For the company, the recent QIA award (Quality Innovation Awards) “is something very important that gives you encouragement and presence so that the project becomes more widely known”, he points out.
The sustainability of resources and the zero carbon footprint as a development challenge
Land, Water and Dams has been recognized for its commitment to sustainability and the pursuit of a zero carbon footprint. “The management of hybrid resources and the sustainability and quality of water is a permanent and active concern. The water sector is essential for the sustainability of a country”, explains Enrique Giménez.
The expert speaks of an additional factor at present, which is decarbonization. “This process involves replacing the production of electricity based on hydrocarbons with renewable energy. The problem is how to store that energy”, he maintains. "One of the best storage facilities out there are reservoirs and they have to be converted into large containers for wind or photovoltaic energy."
The optimization of these reservoirs would help renewable energies to replace, to a greater extent, the energies obtained through hydrocarbons such as gas and diesel. In this sense, Giménez concludes that "maintaining and exploiting our dams properly is essential for a zero carbon footprint and sustainability."