The event was attended by the professor and director of the Maritime Engineering Laboratory of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Agustín Sánchez Arcilla and the researcher Daniel González Marco. Both experts will be in charge of carrying out these works through the collection of information, data analysis, definition of locations and writing of a final explanatory report with the results obtained.
As consideration for the realization of the Agreement, the Cabildo has committed to pay the Polytechnic University of Catalonia the amount of 25,000 euros. Of which 40 percent was made effective with the signing of the Agreement and the rest at the end of the study with the presentation of the final results report. In addition, the agreement will have a duration planned for the development of the work of eight months.
Lanzarote will be the first island in the archipelago, and the Canary Islands the second Spanish community, after Barcelona, to have a document of this type, whose content is obtained by mathematical measurement, through a system of buoys connected via satellite that send information every three seconds about the height of the waves, the direction and strength of the currents and the temperature of the water. This estimate will serve to identify potentially interesting areas for the location of energy extraction systems from the waves or wind on the surface of the sea in the whole island.
