Large sites like an airport consume gallons of fuel, without any doubt. And, if we start talking about the cost paid for it even for a day, it is extensive! Electricity consumption figures of an airport on an average is 180M kilowatt/hour.

Shocking? Isn’t it?

So, in order to resolve this energy consumption issue, Indian Cochin Airport took the initiative towards saving electric energy. Being India’s fourth largest airport, it has now become the world’s first airport to work on solar energy.

Matter of much pride!

Now, let’s look into the details of this whole project-

 

The Idea Behind

As mentioned above, Cochin international airport is India’s fourth largest in the country in terms of passenger-carriage. Thus, a huge amount of electric energy was needed. All thanks to Cochin International Airport Limited who took this great initiative and created history. Not only, this step is helping in saving non-renewable energy i.e. electricity but also saving a lot of bucks every day.

What Does it Include?

Well, the plant is stretched in about 45 acres of land area, you can guess it by imagining 25 football fields together. The plant consists of a number of solar panels which is equal to 46, 150, exactly to be. The solar plant is set up in the cargo complex of the airport. This plant generates around 60,000 units of electricity everyday which is enough to suffice the daily energy requirement.

In case, you have plans to travel to Cochin then by booking your cheap flights to Cochin, get a chance to visit this environment-friendly airport.

Advantages

No doubt, such large projects require a large amount of money for its construction but this is going to last for quite a period of time without further investments.

A sum of 10 million dollars was invested according to CIAl (Cochin International Airport Limited) which would be recovered in just 5 years or even less. Also, the expected life of these solar panels is estimated to be 25 years.

Two and half decades for saving and less hazardous to the environment is just the icing on the cake.
CIAl is also thinking to grow its plant and distribute some energy to the local utility for electricity.

It’s indeed a great initiative put forward in the public interest and profiting the environment. So, book your Cochin flights via Flyopedia and visit this incredible airport.