Ljubljana Airport to get solar power plant

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Qantas resumes international flights

Emotions were high on Monday as excited passengers set off on the first flights between Australia and New Zealand as part of a quarantine-free Covid-19 “travel bubble”, allowing families long separated by the pandemic to reunite and enabling Australia’s Qantas to restore scheduled international flights after more than a year. “(I’ll) yell, scream cry, hug, kiss, (feel) happy - all of these emotions at once”, Denise O’Donoghue, 63, said at Sydney Airport as she prepared to board her flight. The arrangement means passengers can make the three-hour flight across the Tasman Sea without having to complete a mandatory Covid-19 quarantine when they arrive. Television footage showed emotional scenes at the airports with families reuniting and hundreds of passengers thronging the international departure terminals at Australian airports. “It is the first time in 400 days that people can travel quarantine-free and we are adding 16 return flights a day to New Zealand, and they are full”, Qantas Chief Executive, Alan Joyce, said. Qantas will increase flights between the countries to about 200 each week, while Air New Zealand said it had quadrupled its flights to 30 on Monday, with its airplanes flying into New Zealand at 97% capacity. “It is truly exciting to start quarantine-free travel with Australia. Be it returning family, friends or holiday-makers, New Zealand says: ‘Welcome and enjoy yourself’”, New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, said. Australia was New Zealand’s largest source of international tourists before the pandemic, accounting for about 1.5 million arrivals or 40% of total visitors in 2019. The border opening received saturation coverage from media in both countries, with live television reporting from airports providing regular updates on the progress of flights. On a grass embankment at the foot of Wellington Airport’s runway, the words “Welcome Whanau” (family) were spelled out in giant letters. More than half a million New Zealand-born people live in Australia, just more than 2% of Australia’s population of nearly 26 million.
Source: Al Jazeera

Ljubljana Airport to get solar power plant

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Ljubljana Airport’s operator Fraport Slovenija has signed an agreement with Slovenian energy service provider Resalta to build a 500 kW photovoltaic powerplant on the rooftop of the airport’s main garage building. The 500 kW solar power plant will be fully installed in 2021, generating 500 MWh of electricity from renewable sources for direct on-site consumption at Jože Pučnik Airport. This will provide 10% of the airport’s electricity consumption, improving its sustainability and reducing CO2 emissions by 250 tons each year. So far, Resalta has completed about 260 energy projects for 180 clients.

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Unknown14:48
nice
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Anonymous12:34
new building, eco investments, but there is no >>power long time strategy<< no connections, no traffic, no passengers, “excellent” work Fraport & Skobir. Everything indicates that the main target is: 0 traffic. “Good job”
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Anonymous20:45
I seems like building of terminal and now solar cell thingy will be used to increase goodwill portion of balance sheet of the Airport.

This may be also the reason why they are stating that this is a long term investment.

Goals of doing this it to inflate the market worth of the company so they can:

qualify for loan by staking assets
show that they are solvent
increase of airport sale price
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