Akuatro offers several advantages over other devices that also harness water currents to generate electricity. The main ones are:

• Independence from the direction and direction of water currents. This means that a greater number of sites meet the initial requirement of an average water current velocity of 1 m/s.
• The existence of four independent generators allows them to be connected in series, parallel, or mixed, allowing Akuatro to adapt to changes in water velocity, producing energy at the appropriate voltage.
• At Akuatro, both the electrical equipment (transformation center, low-voltage panels, power electronics, and generators) and its connections are installed above ground, specifically on the watertight floating structure, allowing both to be conventional. This feature also facilitates maintenance work.
• It does not require a rigid support structure, thus reducing production and installation costs and reducing environmental and visual impact.

Renewable energies rarely compete with each other; each location has its own characteristics that make it more or less suitable for each technology, including hours of sunlight, wind patterns, or proximity to waterways, among others.

The production of electrical energy from both ocean and river currents is a resource of enormous proportions that is underutilized. This resource also offers several advantages over other renewable energies, such as:

• Greater stability in the conditions allows for the production of basic grid energy, without the fluctuations due to wind patterns or the inability to produce energy at night that are common with wind and solar energy, respectively. Furthermore, previous production estimates are more in line with reality.
• A lower environmental and visual impact, as it doesn’t compete with natural environments or farmland. The visual impact compared to the large overhead generators recently being installed along the coast is drastically lower.