BIRMINGHAM AIRPORT GOES SOLAR
“We did it!” said the recent email I received from Kevin Turnbull, Energy Manager at Birmingham Airport. The airport was on a tight time-line to install the 50kW peak installation of solar electric photovoltaics (PV) before the feed-in tariffs are severely cut.
This is the first renewable energy installation on the airport and is part of their much wider and successful programme to improve energy performance, cut costs and reduce carbon emissions. The airport installed 200 PV panels on the roof of its terminal which is predicted to generate 40,000 kWh of energy a year, sufficient to power twelve average sized houses and save 22 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions each year.
The project took just over six weeks to install by energy companies Npower and Reading-based Photon Energy and so the airport managed to beat the ill-fated government FIT review deadline dates. This means it will receive the full tariff of 32.9p per kWh generated rather than the proposed reduced tariff of 15.9p; a significant difference over the twenty-five years!
To ask about the installation, or just to congratulate the team, please contact Kevin Turnbull direct.
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