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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