Hubballi Airport has become the first 100 per cent green airport in the state.
Union minister Pralhad Joshi tweeted that it’s one more feather in Hubballi Airport’s cap as the 8MWp Grid Connected Solar Power Plant in the airport has been commissioned. “To achieve Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dream of producing 50 per cent energy from renewable energy by 2030, Hubballi Airport has achieved this task,” he said.
He said in his series of tweets that the energy generated by the plant will be fed to the grid at a central location at Hubballi. “The stored energy will be utilised for all AAI airports in Karnataka making Belagavi, Mysore, Bellary, Gagan Bengaluru, HAL Airport Bangalore Bagloor residential quarters etc. airports also 100 per cent GREEN in terms of power consumption along with our Hubballi Airport (sic).”
He has thanked Union civil aviation minister JM Scindia for supporting the idea of making Hubballi Airport a green airport.
