Solar Powered Cochin International Airport Wins UN Environmental Award
Cochin International Airport Limited, (CIAL) has won the UN environmental award for Entrepreneurial Vision. CIAL got the award for using sustainable energy.
It started with 100 Kilowatt pilot project in 2012, later found that it could produce 400 kilowatts of power. So they thought of scaling it up. Today the capacity of CIAL is 29.5 megawatt of solar energy, which is providing 120,000 units of power everday. CIAL is 100% on renewable energy for all its operations. Also the surplus energy generated can be used for cloudy days or monsoon seasons, when the sun rays are less frequent. Currently have eight locations for the panel.
The land where solar panel are kept is used as a farm for growing organic vegetables, which roughly produce 60 tons of vegetables.
In future CIAL target was to produce at least 100 gigawatts of power for the national grid from renewable source by 2022.
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