Summary:
- Fraport secures €2.55m EU funding for GREENVOLT project to enhance sustainable infrastructure at Frankfurt Airport.
- Expansion of ground power and installation of 322 EV charging points will reduce emissions, fuel use and noise across apron operations.
- Initiative supports long-term net zero goals and advances electrification of ground handling through innovative energy and storage solutions.
Fraport – a Corporate Partner of the FTE Digital, Innovation & Startup Hub – has signed a grant agreement with the European Union to receive financial support for its ‘GREENVOLT’ project, which is devoted to increasing the availability of ground power and installing charging infrastructure throughout the apron at Frankfurt Airport. The EU is supporting the planned measures by contributing €2.55 million of the total investment of €8.5 million. The work on them will be finished by the end of 2027.
Fraport is expanding the ground power supply at nine remote aircraft parking positions on the apron. When completed, it will enable crews to switch off their auxiliary power units (if weather conditions allow) and significantly reduce jet fuel consumption. The company is also installing 322 new electric vehicle charging points spread throughout the airport apron. Ground traffic services and other companies operating on the apron will benefit from efficient, environmentally friendly charging of their vehicles. Fraport is also installing a battery-based facility in the south of the airport that will store energy harvested from the photovoltaic system at Runway 18 West (for take-offs only) and make it flexibly available.
“With GREENVOLT, we’re sending a clear signal in support of sustainable innovation at Frankfurt Airport,” said Dr Jennifer Berz, Vice President for Strategy & Sustainability, Fraport. “We’re systematically investing in low-emission technologies to transform our infrastructure. In this way, we’re making an important contribution to achieving our climate targets and ensuring the future viability of aviation.”
GREENVOLT reduces CO2, pollutant and noise emissions and meets the prerequisites for continuing to migrate the ground vehicle fleet to electric drives. By deploying the funds from the EU-promoted Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) in this way, the airport operator aims to set new standards of sustainable airport operation.
The Fraport Group has pledged to achieve net zero status within Scopes 1 and 2 at all of its fully consolidated sites by 2045 at the latest. Attention is now being paid to all climatically relevant greenhouse gases instead of only to carbon dioxide.
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