Glasgow Airport prepares 15-MW solar farm

• Glasgow Airport plans to install an onsite, ground-mounted solar farm of about 15 MW that, it claimed on Wednesday, will be the biggest at a Scottish airport.

The project remains in the beginning of advancement as well as, subject to getting preparation authorization, is expected to go on the internet by the summer of 2023. Supporting Glasgow Airport's purpose of reaching net no by the mid-2030s, it will enable the airport to create power for its campus and adjoining organizations.

Glasgow Airport becomes part of AGS Airports, which additionally has Aberdeen and also Southampton airports.

"Every one of our power is already bought from 100% sustainable resources as well as has been given that 2018, however, the production of the solar farm at Glasgow Airport will certainly enable us to become self-sustaining by creating sufficient clean energy for both the airport and also our neighbors," claimed AGS president Derek Provan.

He additionally sees a possibility for AGS to come to be a testbed for hydrogen and electric flight as well as the solar farm is in expectancy of a boost in power need in the future that will likewise originate from the electrification of functional vehicles, taxis as well as other cars.

Roberto Castiglioni, co-founder of Ikigai, a web zero consultancy the airport team is dealing with, claimed the solar project is the begin of a wider financial investment prepare for Glasgow Airport that will certainly consist of digitisation, energy efficiency as well as gas decarbonisation.

AGS lately announced it had actually produced a Scottish wind energy consortium with Katrick Technologies and also the University of Strathclyde to exploit low-level wind energy via the advancement and also implementation of Katrick Technologies' dual-purpose wind panel as well as .