Baker Hughes and Avports to develop lower-carbon airport solutions

Bak­er Hugh­es announced ear­li­er this week a mem­o­ran­dum of under­stand­ing (MoU) with air­port man­age­ment and oper­a­tions com­pa­ny Avports to devel­op, imple­ment and oper­ate onsite micro­grid solu­tions for the air­port indus­try.

The col­lab­o­ra­tion agree­ment address­es emis­sions reduc­tion and the glob­al industry’s goal to focus on zero-emis­sion build­ings, hor­i­zon­tal air­port infra­struc­ture, vehi­cles, and air­craft sys­tems.

At its man­aged air­port loca­tions, Avports focus­es on air­port inno­va­tion and sus­tain­abil­i­ty ini­tia­tives that include pow­er resilience and using pow­er solu­tions such as green hydro­gen.

With Bak­er Hugh­es’ broad ener­gy tech­nol­o­gy port­fo­lio, which includes both hydro­gen-ready tur­bines and heat recov­ery solu­tions ide­al for micro­grid appli­ca­tions, this col­lab­o­ra­tion will accel­er­ate the adop­tion and devel­op­ment of cus­tomised micro­grids to address each airport’s spe­cif­ic needs.

“Bak­er Hughes’s com­mit­ment to emis­sions reduc­tions has allowed us to devel­op and suc­cess­ful­ly deploy low-car­bon and hydro­gen tech­nolo­gies to advance the ener­gy tran­si­tion in many indus­tries,” said Bob Perez, vice pres­i­dent of Project Devel­op­ment at Bak­er Hugh­es.

“The oppor­tu­ni­ty to bring these solu­tions to air­ports, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Avports’ proven track record in air­port man­age­ment, is very promis­ing as the increas­ing needs and demands of these infra­struc­tures must be more resilient, effi­cient, and cost-effec­tive.”

Jorge Roberts, CEO of Avport, added: “Pro­vid­ing a tech­ni­cal and eco­nom­ic roadmap to air­ports to meet their ener­gy needs of the future is key as an air­port man­age­ment and oper­a­tions com­pa­ny.

“Our part­ner­ship with Bak­er Hugh­es brings world-class tech­nol­o­gy and know-how togeth­er with our abil­i­ty to sup­port air­port cus­tomers to realise these solu­tions at their facil­i­ty.”

Bak­er Hugh­es is an ener­gy tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­ny that pro­vides solu­tions to ener­gy and indus­tri­al cus­tomers world­wide, built on a cen­tu­ry of expe­ri­ence and con­duct­ing busi­ness in over 120 coun­tries.

Avports is an air­port man­ag­er and oper­a­tor with over 650 employ­ees and a 96-year track record, found­ed in 1927 as the air­port infra­struc­ture oper­a­tor divi­sion of Pan Amer­i­can World Air­ways.

The com­pa­ny has oper­at­ed more than 30 air­ports, avi­a­tion facil­i­ties, and pas­sen­ger ter­mi­nals in the Unit­ed States, includ­ing 52 years of active oper­a­tions in New York State. Avports cur­rent­ly deliv­ers air­port oper­a­tions and man­age­ment ser­vices at 11 air­ports in the US, locat­ed in sev­en dif­fer­ent states.

In Feb­ru­ary, Avports signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing with Jaunt Air Mobil­i­ty to join its Access Sky­ways infra­struc­ture alliance and sup­port the inte­gra­tion of eVTOL air­craft with air­ports and the avi­a­tion ecosys­tem.

Avports becomes lat­est com­pa­ny to join Jaunt Air Mobility’s Access Sky­ways group and sup­port inte­gra­tion of eVTOL air­craft with air­ports