Vienna Airport takes the next step in its sustainability strategy. This year the operator will install one of the largest photovoltaic plants in Austria. It is installed on the roof of a new logistics hall. This not only increases the airfreight center of the city airport of the Austrian federal capital by a third. The expansion of the Air Cargo Center also offers about 15,000 square meters of roof space for a new solar generator.
Double the system power
The extension of the airfreight center will be implemented by the end of this year. In total, the airport company will invest 16 million euros. One million of these will flow into the photovoltaic plant. So far, the exact dimension of the generator is not yet clear as the plans are still running. However, it is already clear that the new plant will more than double the already installed solar power at Vienna Airport.
Each roof gets solar energy
So far, the operator has installed about 5,000 square meters of total module space on the roofs of airport buildings. Already in the summer of 2016 approximately 2,000 modules were installed on the roof of a hangar and a device roof. But this was only the beginning of a sustainability strategy pursued by the airport in order to take the power supply into its own hands and to be less dependent on the supplier. This self-sufficiency is to be implemented with more and more green power plants. The strategy foresees that all roof surfaces of the existing and newly built buildings of the airport will be equipped with photovoltaic panels. To this end, the airport will be installed with up to 4,000 square meters of module space per year. The plants are to feed the produced electricity via transformer stations into the airport network and thus the power purchase from the public grid is to be reduced. (SU/HCN)
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