The First Green Airport in Europe

Bournemouth, a tourist center in the South of England has become the first Green Airport in Europe which is "carbon neutral". The transformation took place as part of the programme of reconstruction of the airport which installed solar panels with a capacity of 74,98 kWp.

For this reason, Bournemouth airport has solar panels on roofs and parasols installed widely in the various sections of the site. There is also a separate sector which have installed solar panels with South-facing to take advantage of solar energy in the best possible way.
This was complemented by an improvement in the efficiency of facilities for indoor lighting, operating systems and other sources of consumption of energy. Set has been achieved in Bournemouth installations to be carbon neutral, making it the first Airport in Europe to achieve this.


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Airport Portland energy pump

In recent years has been a turnaround in the obtaining of various renewable energysources, and this has pointed to the so-called geothermal energydevelopment, and on this occasion, applied to the airports, which tend to be one of the axes of increased pollutionnot only by the noise generated by the engines (noise pollution) but also for the enormous amount of CO2 emissions.

On this occasion, the novelty is that it is working on the Airport in Portland (Maine, United States) to begin to develop its own system of Geothermic energy, which would contribute to the generation of heating and air conditioning throughout the building.

Construction would then consist of a series of pipes that would be located at about 150 feet below a parking lot for employees, found a sink with temperatures reaching an average of 55 degrees centigrade in the majority of the year.

If all goes as it has been planned, in warm periods this system would replace the use of air conditioning, while in winter it would replace the boilers for heating of the airport, which would mean further savings of about 140,000 euros a year.

 

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