KDC Solar installed a 2.74-MW solar system along the tarmac
at Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport.

The Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport is an anomaly in American aviation. The airport has taken environmentally conscious steps to all new major developments — from recycling windowpanes and repurposing them into countertops to “rubble-izing” concrete facilities and using the material as the groundwork for a 2.74-MW ground-mount solar array, which powers all its operations.

“We figure, we’re going to produce everything we could possibly use,” said John Naylor, former VP of planning and development for the Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport (CHA). “That’s how we got to today. Solar was just part of our sustainability program, part of the airport’s business model.”

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