Kochi airport’s unique insolation remains unchallenged for four years ..

VJ Kurien, the architect of a modern Kerala and a modern India ..

V J Kurien IAS, is the brain behind the 100% solar energy powered and 10 million annual traffic Kochi International Airport ..

How can a Kerala airport working on a public-private partnership provide faultless service to customers, annually 10 million traffic, after having adopted 100% solar energy for about 4 years remain unchallenged and win the 2018 United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) award for the Champion of the Earth .. (click here for the video link) ? Dedication, hardwork, vision and the persistence to follow a great dream which nobody ever dreamt and thought would be humanely possible ..

What is an environmental strategy ? 

Environmental strategies can be defined as a set of initiatives that can reduce the impact of operations on the natural environment through products, processes and corporate policies such as reducing energy consumption and waste, using green sustainable resources and environmental management system implementation. : Hengky Latan et al

Kerala floods of Aug '18 inundated the airport

As we near four years of Kochi airport's unique and pioneering insolation,we need to understand there is a lot for the other countries of the world to imbibe from this exercise. There has been no competition for Kochi airport in all these four years 👍..

Scenic beauty of Kochi airport

Kudos to Kurien and his team at Kochi 👍👍 What makes this insolation so unique is the fact that except for the great floods which hit the state of Kerala, more so the Kochi airport (click here for a link) and surrounding areas in August 2018, the airport has not had a glitch or problem with the switch to solar power.

It definitely speaks volumes of the technical expertise provided to the airport by Bosch from Germany and the technical skills of the employees and contractors alike who have made this airport world-class.

View of airport with the solar paneled car port

Click here for a link to how creative and green have been the airport growing vegetables ..

Click here to read why the author feels the rest of the world is unable to catch up ..

Click here for a case study on Kochi airport prepared by the author for a conference in IIM Bangalore in 2018 ..

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