Rooftop solar panels at Adelaide airport help answer energy needs

The massive 1.17MW addition to Adelaide Airport’s rooftop solar capacity has been completed and is now generating electricity, supplying just under 10 per cent of the major airport’s energy needs.

The new system, installed on the roof of airport’s short-term car park brings the airport’s total solar capacity to 1.28MW – adding to panels installed on the domestic and international terminals in 2007.

The short term multi-storey car park system – which ranks as South Australia’s largest rooftop solar install and Australia’s largest solar car park – is expected to offset 100 per cent of the car park’s electricity consumption, with excess power to be consumed within the main terminal.

Solgen Energy Group executive general manager David Naismith said Solgen worked with the unique specifications and stringent financial criteria to design a 1.17MW solar power system under a competitive bid process.

Read the One Step Off the Grid story - “Adelaide airport completes 1.17MW rooftop solar install –South Australia’s largest.”