Union Minister of State for Power Piyush Goyal said here on Thursday that all railway stations and airports in the country would be instructed to install Cochin International Airport model solar energy generation facilities.
He was speaking after visiting the CIAL solar energy farm on the Nedumbassery airport premises along with Union Minister of State for Environment, Forests and Climate Change Prakash Javedkar.
Mr. Goyal said that CIAL had created a model for the whole country in solar energy generation. India targeted producing one lakh megawatt of energy from non-conventional sources by 2025, the Minister said. This ambitious programme had now a model in CIAL solar power generation facility. He said that the Union government had drawn up a plan to produce solar power at all railway stations in the country. The Minister held a round of discussions with officials of the airport.
