New Economical Technology Leverages Excess Pressure on Power Grid to Produce Energy
Written by AZoCleantechApr 7 2021
In recent years, pressure-based irrigation techniques have substituted conventional ones, thereby enhancing water efficiency but increasing the dependence on energy. This has led to advances and innovations in technology that have facilitated agricultural activity.
Researchers from the Agronomy Department at the University of Cordoba. Image Credit: University of Cordoba.
This, in turn, increases the energy costs associated with the agriculture sector, some of the highest ones in the European Union.
Juan Antonio Rodríguez Díaz and Jorge García Morillo, scientists from the Hydraulics and Irrigation Group of the María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence, at the Department of Agronomy of the University of Cordoba (DAUCO), aimed to increase the energy efficiency of irrigation.