Friday 21 August 2015

I Have Always Been Worried About Solar Power,

for a couple of reasons,


the main concern being what happens if the sun does not shine? but this appears to have been surmounted by the Kolkata based M/s Vikram Solar Pvt. Ltd, further to this Bosch Ltd in India was the company who headed up the solar-power initiative for CIA, the company is anticipating they will be taking on more projects like this in India and around the world for that matter, as Cochin International Airport (CIA) in India is now the first solar-powered airport in the world, yes you read that correctly, a solar powered airport! CIA began this unique sustainable development project, also dubbed the Green Power Project, back in March 2013, since then they have slowly been adding and testing solar-panels and innovative technology to fuel the entire airport, now all of its 46,150 solar-panels spread out across 45 acres of land surrounding the airport are fully operational, 'now, Cochin airport will have 50,000 to 60,000 thousand units of electricity per day to be consumed for all its operational functions, which technically makes the airport absolutely power neutral,' states CIA on its website,


off course this does not mean the airport is self sufficient, at night and on some days power has to be bought back as solar panels do not work at night, so generating plants still have to keep running, just in case it is a cloudy day or for night operations, but still with so much spare land around airports world wide I wonder if the idea will catch on?

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