The Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) at Hyderabad will soon become 100 per cent LED-lit airport. The authorities are already done with 75 per cent work on the project.
According to India Today, the GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd (GHIAL), which operates the airport, announced on Tuesday that it has converted the entire taxiway edge lights from halogen lamps to LEDs which are highly efficient as compared to halogen lights.
LEDs also have a much smaller environmental impact than incandescent bulbs.
Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) thus became south India’s first and India’s second airport to achieve going all LED.
Complementing the recently achieved recognition of being carbon neutral airport, GHIAL is marching to transform the RGIA into a 100 per cent LED airport, and 75 per cent work on this has already been completed, GHIAL said in a statement.
LEDs can also last more than 25 times longer than the traditional light bulbs cutting down costs further.
The busiest and the most critical area of the airport — the airside — has undergone LED transformation. As many as 500 halogen lamps of taxiway edge lights were converted to LEDs.
All LEDs at taxiway edge lights cover around 26 km of the area in the airside.
Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport has more than 26,000 conventional lamps. More than 19,500 have been converted into LED.
The switch to LED lights has amounted to a saving of 2.2 million unites of electricity per annum.
