The Rector of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS, Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa), PhD Juan Eulogio Guerra Liera, set in motion the project of the solar plant for electrical energy generation in the facilities of the Technological Innovation Park (PIT, Parque de Innovación Tecnológica), in the context of the institutional objective of achieving a green university.

In the presence of university authorities and researchers, the rector pointed out that a conclusive reality in the current context of Knowledge Society is the importance of innovation and technology in human activities.

He claimed that the University has full conscience of this reality, thus, is focusing on generating ideas and concrete actions which point to new excellence levels.

“The organizations which do not dare to innovate, which do not invest efforts and resources on the improvement of processes, materials and products, are condemned to isolation or backwardness, in a world marked by its dynamism and the making of associations between diverse natures”, assumed.

He referred that in the World Economic Forum’s report, one of the most emphasized areas has to do precisely with clean energy and technologies. Guerra Liera recalled that this report highlights the existence or emergence of organizations dedicated to generation, storage and distribution of energy, as well as the technology oriented to increase its efficiency and decrease its impact on the environment. In this context, he considered that, thanks to this project, UAS is taking a work route of world class.

Juan Eulogio Guerra Liera claimed that, with the summation of efforts from PIT-UAS and regional developing enterprise HunabSys, the University is complying with the Plan of Institutional Development Consolidation 2017, which considers the strategies of environmental sustainability and linkage.

During his intervention, the Director of PIT-UAS, MBA José Ramón López Arellano, emphasized that this center of research functions as a driving force of the triple helix model, in which sustainable developments are generated in multidisciplinary projects.

He made known this project’s first phase is the construction of a rotatory photovoltaic system of approximately 6 kW/h, which is going to feed a parking lot that will function, at the same time, as a charge center for electric cars.

“Concurrently, the conversion of an internal combustion car into an electric car will be done; likewise, during the second phase, the own design of an electric automobile is planned, besides the implementation on other university facilities of this prototype-building model of sustainable energies”, revealed.

By last, the director thanked the Rector by the support offered to this space; to José Carlos Castro Padilla (Director of HunabSys), López Arellano thanked by his trust on the University to collaborate in activities of research and technological research.

Source: Direction of Communications UAS. http://dcs.uas.edu.mx/index.php?sec=1&op=2&id_nota=5522&tipo=i. Translated by Belem Ruiz (Edition and Communication, PIT-UAS).