More than 46,000 solar panels have been laid out across 45 acres of land to fuel the operations of Cochin International Airport, India’s fourth largest in terms of international passenger traffic.
Officials at the airport in the south-western state of Kerala say it will now be “absolutely power neutral” — and will even produce an excess that will boost the state’s electricity grid.
The project’s designers say between 50,000 and 60,000 units of electricity will be supplied each day by the 12 megawatt plant, commissioned by the German multinational engineering and electronics company Bosch at a cost of $9.5 million.
“When we realised the scale of our power bill, we looked at various possibilities,” says V.J. Kurian, Cochin International’s managing director.
Sustainable model
“We consume around 48,000 units of power a day. So if we can produce the same by strictly adhering to the green and sustainable model of infrastructure development we always follow, we can send a message to the world.
“Now this has become the world’s first airport that fully operates on solar power. In fact, we are producing a few megawatts of extra energy, which is being contributed to the state’s power grid.”
10/09/15 Pramila Krishnan/Alternet
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Officials at the airport in the south-western state of Kerala say it will now be “absolutely power neutral” — and will even produce an excess that will boost the state’s electricity grid.
The project’s designers say between 50,000 and 60,000 units of electricity will be supplied each day by the 12 megawatt plant, commissioned by the German multinational engineering and electronics company Bosch at a cost of $9.5 million.
“When we realised the scale of our power bill, we looked at various possibilities,” says V.J. Kurian, Cochin International’s managing director.
Sustainable model
“We consume around 48,000 units of power a day. So if we can produce the same by strictly adhering to the green and sustainable model of infrastructure development we always follow, we can send a message to the world.
“Now this has become the world’s first airport that fully operates on solar power. In fact, we are producing a few megawatts of extra energy, which is being contributed to the state’s power grid.”
10/09/15 Pramila Krishnan/Alternet
