Two more yrs before Mumbai airport can switch to green power

Mumbai: The new T3 terminal in Delhi made the airport in the capital the first in the country to adopt the more environment-friendly Fixed Electrical Ground Power (FEGP) on all its 78 aero-bridges; the airport in the financial capital will have to wait at least another two years before it can get the same facility.
Reason: the systems were not installed by the Airports Authority of India at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport and Mumbai International Airport Ltd can put them in place only when the new, integrated Terminal 2 is ready at the end of 2012.
FEGP has the potential to save airlines tonnes of money annually by cutting down on expensive air turbine fuel (ATF) while also reducing emissions and noise pollution.
Across the world, airports are moving towards adopting the more environment-friendly Fixed Electrical Ground Power (FEGP) units at the airports. Not to be left behind, in June the Indian regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation issued its first aviation environment circular for the year, by asking Indian airports to also affect this move. No other airport besides Delhi has FEGPs in India.
04/08/10 Ranjani Raghavan/Indian Express

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