Airport plans for LED lighting
Albany International Airport is considering a new LED lighting trial that could help reduce electricity costs by 75 per cent.
The proposal was suggested by Mark Rea, the director at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Lighting Research Centre (LRC), which is offering to fit 400 LEDs at the airport's parking garage for free.
The motion-sensitive LED lights can reduce energy usage by automatically dimming when no cars or people are moving.
If the plan is approved, LRC will install the fixtures on the garage's fourth floor later this year as part of a 20 month trial.
The scheme would then be extended to encompass the third floor ten months later subject to a consultation process.
Airport spokesman Doug Myers claimed the move is be part of a "number of green initiatives".
He said: "Compressed-natural-gas buses and pickup trucks, a hydrogen fuel facility that we'll install in the fall and share with CDTA, and the electric tugs and bag-belt loaders being used by Delta Airlines are examples of these initiatives."
Tuesday, 10th June 2008
