Ministry of Civil Aviation

Government is making all efforts to promote the use of green energy at airports


Airport operators are advised to work towards carbon neutrality & net zero emission

Posted On: 21 MAR 2022 3:18PM by PIB Delhi

For encouraging green energy at the airports, the airport operators including Airports Authority of India (AAI) have installed solar power plants under net metering / captive mode at various locations/Airports for generation and self-consumption of green and renewable energy. In addition, few airports are procuring green energy through open access. The State/UT-wise details of the airports where solar plants have been installed are at Annexure.

The Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) has taken initiatives for working towards Carbon neutrality and achieving net zero carbon emission at airports in the country and organized knowledge sharing sessions to standardise Carbon Accounting and Reporting framework of Indian Airports as well as to create awareness on Climate Change mitigation.  Further, airport operators with scheduled operations have been advised to map the carbon emission at their respective airports and to work towards carbon neutrality & net zero emission in a phased manner.

 

Annexure

     

S No.

State/UT

Name of the Airport

1

Andaman & Nicobar Islands (UT)

Portblair

2

Andhra Pradesh

Rajamundry

3

Vijayawada

4

Tirupati

5

Assam

Dibrugarh (Mohanbari)

6

Jorhat 

7

Silchar

8

Guwahati

9

Bihar

Gaya         

10

Patna

11

Chhattisgarh

Raipur

12

Chandigarh (UT)

Chandigarh

13

Delhi (UT)

Safdarjung

14

IGI Airport

15

Gujarat

Rajkot

16

Vadodara

17

Bhuj

18

Ahmedabad

19

Jharkhand

Ranchi

20

Karnataka

KIA Bengaluru

21

Kerala

Calicut

22

Cochin

23

Thiruvananthapuram

24

Ladakh (UT)

Leh

25

Madhya Pradesh

Bhopal

26

Indore

27

Maharashtra

Gondia

28

Juhu

29

Aurangabad

30

Nagpur

31

Pune

32

CSMI Airport Mumbai

33

Shirdi

34

Nashik (Ozar)

35

Manipur

Imphal

36

Odisha

Jharsuguda

37

Bhubaneswar

38

Puducherry (UT)

Puducherry

39

Punjab

Amritsar           

40

Rajasthan

Kishangargh

41

Jaisalmer    

42

Jodhpur 

43

Jaipur

44

Tamil Nadu

Madurai

45

Chennai

46

Tiruchirapalli (Trichy)

47

Telangana

RGI Airport Hyderabad

48

Hyderabad  (Begumpet)

49

Tripura

Agartala

50

Uttar Pradesh

Allahabad (Prayagraj)

51

Kanpur

52

Lucknow            

53

Varanasi

54

West Bengal

Bagdogra

55

Kolkata

 

This information was given by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Civil Aviation Gen. (Dr) V. K. Singh (Retd) in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today.

 

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