First Solar Airport of India
Cochin has done a big thing and ready to have the first International Airport of India to be run by Solar Power.
This development was announced by the Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) managing director VJ Kurian at a press conference and the inauguration will be done by the Chief Minister of Kerala Oommen Chandy on Tuesday.
The project of the Airport was awarded to the Bangalore based Bosch Limited and was completed within six months.
More than 46,150 photovoltaics (PV) panels have been laid across 45 acres and with the functioning of the plant, the airport will have 50,000 to 60,000 units of electricity each day that can be used for all the operational functions of the airport.
CIAL, which has adorned many firsts in its cap, like being the pioneer in PPP model in building an airport to introducing a path-breaking rehabilitation package for evictees, has ventured into the Solar PV sector during March 2013, by installing a 100 kWp solar PV Plant on the roof top of the Arrival Terminal Block.
This was a trend setter in the field of grid-connected solar PV in the state of Kerala.
After the successful commissioning of this plant, CIAL installed a 1 MWp solar PV power plant partly on the roof top and partly on the ground in the Aircraft Maintenance Hangar facility within the Airport premises.
Both these plants are equipped with a SCADA system, through which remote monitoring is carried out. After commissioning, these plants have so far saved more than 550MT of CO2 emission contributing to the efforts of CIAL towards minimizing environmental degradation.
“After commissioning, this installation is expected to generate around 48000 units per day, which along with the electricity generated from the existing 1.10 MWp plants, would be sufficient to meet the power requirement of the Airport,” a CIAL official said
With the inauguration of the airport on Tuesday CIAL will become the first solar power airport of India and all the power requirement daily will be met by the solar plant constructed at the airport.
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