In rural areas, there are abundant and several types of renewable energy resources. Agricultural irrigation facilities hold hundreds to thousands kW hydro powers at agricultural canals, dams, headworks, and reservoirs, and thermal energy of water in canals and reservoirs. Moreover, there are biomass resources such as sludge, agricultural by-products, resource crops, livestock excrement, and so on. To use these resources effectively, we are developing technologies for the utilization of renewable energy in rural areas, and evaluation methods of technologies utilize regional resources, including renewable energy, to propose measures for rural development under climate change, population decline, and inhabitant aging. In addition, for agricultural facilities such as greenhouses, we promote research of technologies like facility structures and measurement and control of internal environment and energy consumption, for the purpose of: (1) to make the facilities resilient to natural disasters, (2) to fully utilize renewable energies, and (3) to make the facilities friendly to people and the environment.
The direction of a future rural community will become clear, if we understand a rural community from a viewpoint of energy, for example how and where is energy consumed or where can we use regional energy. Feel free to consult with us about renewable energy in rural areas, general matters of agricultural facilities as greenhouses, techniques for the propagation effects of the economic impacts of projects about agriculture and rural areas, for environmental evaluation, and for workshop, etc.
