Birmingham Airport spends £10m on solar farm to reduce emissions
June 15, 2025
Airport spends £10m on solar farm to reduce emissions
Birmingham AirportBirmingham Airport has spent nearly £10m on a solar farm to help reduce its emissions.
More than 12,000 panels have been installed on the airport’s noise bund – mounds of soil that reduce noise pollution and protect residential areas from aircraft noise.
The farm produces more than 20% of the airport’s power and is enough to reduce its carbon footprint by about 1,000 tonnes a year, the airport said.
Chief finance and sustainability officer Simon Richards said the panels were part of the airport’s plan to hit net-zero carbon by 2033.
“We’re an industry that’s quite carbon intensive and there’s a lot of work going on with airlines to reduce carbon from flying,” he said.
During peak sunny times, the 6.8-megawatt farm can generate enough solar energy to fully power the airport.
“The installation produces around six gigawatt-hours (GWh) of power a year – that’s enough to power more than 2,000 homes,” Mr Richards said.
He said panels had been also installed on the terminal’s rooftops from 2012 to reduce the airport’s reliance on the electrical grid.
To improve sustainability, it plans to move its heating from gas to electric heat pumps in the future.
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