Having the local airport available 24 hours a day can have a profound positive impact on a community’s social and economic welfare.
Emergency nighttime medical evacuations are suddenly possible – saving lives.
Passenger flight times can extend safely past dusk and transport of goods, in and out of a community, can happen over extended hours.
The positive impact of longer operating hours filters into the community beyond the immediate airport and the addition of lights greatly improves operational safety – a fact acted upon recently by the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN). In 2015 Carmanah worked with a local partner to complete the lighting of 10 Airports in Nigeria as part of FAAN’s stated continuing mandate to be a world-class provider of safe, secure and efficient services across Nigeria. Carmanah hopes create similar partnerships with aviation authorities in other African countries.
Budgets are always a consideration; however using solar aviation lighting can help minimize costs. Carmanah’s solar lights are self-contained, reliable and safety compliant. Using these lights means that airports require no trenching or grid connection to extend operating hours. Without high voltage concerns, installation costs are also minimized and there are no ongoing power requirements. Carmanah’s solar aviation lighting can make lighting an airport viable, when budget or logistical restrictions exclude traditional AC lighting and are often the best choice even when grid power is available.
Solar aviation lighting is another excellent example of how evolving technologies are improving the lives of many in Africa. These innovations are leapfrogging old technologies- the integration of new battery, solar panel and LED technologies have resulted in products that can make lighting an airfield, safe, reliable, regulation compliant and cost effective.
To learn more about solar aviation lighting and our Nigerian projects, please visit us at the African Airport Expansion Summit in Accra, Ghana Feb 11-12.
Headquartered in Victoria, British Columbia, Carmanah produces a portfolio of products focused on energy optimized LED and solar technologies. We design, develop and distribute energy efficient LED solutions for infrastructure including: signaling systems for the marine aids to navigation, airfield ground lighting, offshore wind marking , aviation obstruction and traffic markets.
Carmanah’s product portfolio also includes industrial and commercial solar powered outdoor LED lighting systems, and solar on and off-grid power generation systems.
Since 1996, we have earned a global reputation for delivering strong and effective products for industrial applications that perform reliably in some of the world’s harshest environments. Our LED and solar power systems provide durable, dependable, efficient and cost-effective solutions which have been deployed in over 400,000 installations in 110 countries. The Carmanah brand portfolio includes Go Power! and recently acquired companies, Sol and Sabik.
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