{"id":395868,"date":"2021-01-18T09:19:22","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T03:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=395868"},"modified":"2021-01-18T09:48:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T04:18:17","slug":"cochin-international-airport-commissions-floating-solar-power-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cochin-international-airport-commissions-floating-solar-power-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Cochin International Airport commissions floating solar power plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kochi: Cochin International Airport Ltd (CIAL), which became the world&#8217;s first solar-powered airport in 2015, on Sunday added another feather to its cap, commissioning two floating solar power plants in Kerala.<\/p>\n<p>With the installation of the plants with a capacity of 452 KWh over two artificial lakes, the airport&#8217;s total installed capacity has risen to 40 MWp helping it to produce around 1.60 lakh units of power a day against per day consumption of around at 1.30 lakh units, the CIAL said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;CIALs trysts with the experiments in producing green energy achieved another milestone with this installation as the company has introduced cost-effective high-density polyethylene floats; using French technology, upon which 1300 photovoltaic panels were mounted and laid over two artificial lakes located in the 130-acre CIAL golf course&#8221;, it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kochi: Cochin International Airport Ltd (CIAL), which became the world&#8217;s first solar-powered airport in 2015, on Sunday added another feather to its cap, commissioning two floating solar power plants in Kerala. With the installation of the plants with a capacity of 452 KWh over two artificial lakes, the airport&#8217;s total installed capacity has risen to 40 MWp helping it to produce around 1.60 lakh units of power a day against per day consumption of around at 1.30 lakh units, the CIAL said. &#8220;CIALs trysts with the experiments in producing green energy achieved another milestone with this installation as the company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}