The Kempegowda international airport of Bangalore wants its airport buses to run on fuel cells. According to sources in Bangalore International Airport Ltd (BIAL), the company that runs the airport, a hydrogen supplier has been identified and a formal accouncement of a tie-up would come by the end of this year.
It is also learnt that the hydrogen would be produced from biomass. The plant could be at some place not far from the airport, perhaps just a couple of kilometers, so that the gas could be easily piped.
The Kempegowda international airport already has the distinction of being entirely solar-powered; the solar based electricity is delivered to by CleanMax Solar, a Bangalore-based company that puts up solar plants at its cost and sells only energy (or, the 'opex model').
BIAL is jointly owned by the government and the private sector. US-headquartered investor, Fairfax Financial owns 54 per cent of BIAL; Siemens Projects own another 20 per cent. The rest is owned by various government bodies.
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