Hubballi airport to ‘foot’ power bills of Karnataka airports from March 2021
If everything goes according to plan, from March 2021 Hubballi Domestic Airport will be ‘footing’ the electric bills of airports managed by Airports Authority of India (AAI) in Karnataka (except Bengaluru and Mangaluru international airports).
According to Hubballi Airport Director Pramod Kumar Thakre, by March 2021, the city’s airport is expected to generate 140 lakh units of electricity through its eight-megawatt ground-mounted grid-connected photovoltaic(PV) solar plant that is being installed here. The power thus generated by photovoltaic solar panels will be fed to the high-tension grid of Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Limited on drive wheel system and take credit in the electricity bill of all airports in Karnataka managed by AAI. Once completely implemented, the airport’s dependence on external power supply will be reduced by at least 85% annually.
