Introducing the World’s First Solar-Powered Airport

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Aviation history has been made with the world’s first solar-powered airport. In India’s southern state of Kerala, Cochin International Airport operates completely on solar power, making the airport absolutely power neutral. In fact, the 46,000 solar panels laid across 45 acres produce somewhere near 48,000 units of electricity per day, meaning Cochin actually makes more power than it uses. The excess power generated by the huge solar panel field boosts the state’s electricity grid. Over the next 25 years, the solar airport is expected to save 300,000 tons of carbon emissions — the equivalent of planting three million trees or erasing the environmental impact of driving 750 million miles.

“When we had realized that the power bill is on the higher side, we contemplated possibilities. Then the idea of tapping the green power came in,” V.J. Kurian IAS, Managing Director of Cochin International, explains. “We consume around 48,000 units (kwh) a day. So if we can produce the same, that too by strictly adhering to the green and sustainable development model of infrastructure development that we always follow, would transcend a message to the world. Now this has become the world’s first airport that fully operates on solar power.”

Cochin is not alone in making the move to greener energy. Terminal 2 of London’s Heathrow Airport incorporates solar power, as does Denver International Airport. When the new international airport in Mexico City is completed in 2018, it will be the most sustainable airport in the world.

These cost-effective and extremely efficient sustainable-energy systems are garnering the world’s attention, hopefully inspiring similar environmental moves across the entire air travel industry.

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