Towards the end of 2011, the sun rose to shine for the first time on the newly inaugurated Photovoltaic (PV) park at Athens International Airport (AIA), the largest unified PV installation at an airport worldwide.
AIA’s PV park is expected to contribute significantly to the airport’s target of reducing its carbon footprint. The production of approxi - mately 11 million ‘green’ KW annually, corresponds to almost nine per cent of the airport’s electricity needs and will reduce CO2 emissions by 11,000 tonnes per year, for a period of at least 25 years.
The inauguration of the PV park marked the end of AIA’s efforts to introduce renewable energy sources at the airport. However, before AIA considered adding energy producing facilities within its strategy, it had to tackle the issue of energy efficiency. An important energy manage - ment process was initiated in 2002 which targeted the reduction of energy consumption at the airport. The airport had to run on the absolute minimum energy required, without comp ro - mising the high level of services offered to our passengers and partners.
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