![]() ![]() Though not listed, the company has a strong base of 19,000 investors from 28 countries. For this entrepreneurial vision, the airport won the coveted ‘Champion of the Earth’ award in 2018, the highest environmental honour instituted by the United Nations. CIAL’s solar power plants together generate two hundred thousand (2 lakhs) units of power a day whereas the airport’s daily power consumption stands at 1.6 hundred thousand units. These include seven plants functioning in the premises of the airport, a solar carport and the one at Payyanur. With the commissioning of Payyanur plant the cumulative installed capacity of solar plants of CIAL has been scaled up to 50 MWp. The 12 MWp Payyanur plant is situated at Ettukudukka near Payyanur, Kerala. The hydropower plant located at Iruvanjippuzha in Arippara, Kozhikode district, has an installed capacity of producing 4.5MW.ĬIAL also inaugurated a new solar power plant on 06th March 2022 elevating its status of being a power neutral airport to a power positive airport. ![]() CIAL also ventured into a hydroelectric project which was commissioned in 2021. In 2015, Cochin International Airport became the world's first fully solar powered airport with the inauguration of a dedicated solar plant. CIAL believes in the responsibility to venture into projects producing green energy and thereby lessening our carbon footprint. The airport operates three passenger terminals, including an exclusive Business Jet Terminal which is also India’s first charter gateway.Īviation is one of the fields which is being reprimanded for the production of greenhouse gases. ![]() As of 2022, the Cochin International Airport caters to 61.8% of the total air passenger movement in Kerala. Cochin Airport, located 28 km north-east of downtown Kochi, the commercial capital of Kerala, is the third busiest airport in the country in terms of international passenger movement and seventh largest in terms of total passenger volume. It is also the first ever airport in the world fully powered by solar energy. Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) owns and operates the Kochi Airport, which is the first airport in the country built under Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode. Cochin Airport (IATA code: COK) is an international airport serving the city of Kochi, in the state of Kerala, India. ![]()
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