Also read With Airports running on Solar Power, could airfares decline in India<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cRenewable energy has huge environmental benefits and BIAL will continue to invest in accelerating its development. As part of its green strategy, BIAL embarked on adopting renewable energy for the airport operations in early 2015. These projects have been tendered out and the bids are currently under evaluation and are expected to be awarded shortly. The projects are expected to be completed in early 2016,\u201d airport authorities said in an email.<\/p>\n Source: Livemint<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Airports are one of the busiest places today, having huge requirement for power. Not only are their power needs very high, they are also a big source of The airport sought proposals for producing and supplying ~20 million kWh of solar power annually through open access<\/strong>. The Bangalore airport is spread across an impressive 3000 acres of land. It should be noted here that the Cochin airport<\/a> is just 1300 acres in land housing 12 MW<\/strong> of solar power, while Bangalore International Airport is planning a 14.6 MW solar plant.<\/p>\n \u201cWe didn\u2019t go for open access route because it requires a large extent of land and there is a shortage of suppliers and the cost is high. But it has a positive side because instead of capital expenditure, they will have to provide only revenue expenditure. How they are going to do it, we will have to wait and see,\u201d said Nair.<\/p>\n Source: Livemint<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n While open access<\/strong> is a more scalable and cheaper option, it has its own challenges like requirement of huge land area, availability of suppliers and grid usage cost. It is a niche but interesting area developing in the Indian solar market. Commonly seen in industrial installations, they can be beneficial at locations where power tariffs are high and grid is robust. Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh are some of the states using open access policies, since the state regulations are most favourable here. Read more about Karnataka Rooftop Policy<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bangalore Airport to go Solar Next I have been writing a lot about the Indian airports these days. Can\u2019t help it, since a lot of solar [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india-green-stocks-greeninvest","category-solar-renewable-energy-greeninvest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Solar-powered-airport\"](\"http:\/\/www.greenworldinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Solar-powered-airport-300x160.jpg\")
<\/a>emission\/ air pollution. Airports also have large area of land and open rooftop spaces available which allows easy installation of solar panels. Malaysia\u2019s Kuala Lumpur International Airport<\/strong> has set up a solar beauty having ground-mounted and rooftops systems, plus parking areas displaying solar panels. Airports are visited by one and all from different countries, and they putting up panels sets an example for everyone to behold.<\/p>\nSupply of Solar Power through Open Access<\/h3>\n