The remote airfield located at the Northern Canadian Tsay Keh Dene First Nation will have solar LED light facility supplied by Carmanah Technologies.
LED light facility supplied by Carmanah Technologies
The installed solar lights will assist the medevac and supply aircraft to land over the air strip of the village situated on the Williston Reservoir’s northern end in British Columbia. The first of its kind fully solar-powered airfield in British Columbia is one among the two of the projects that received a grant from the Innovative Clean energy Fund of the Canadian Government.
Tsay Keh Dene First Nation, a Canadian First Nations community located in the countryside depends on a 45000 ft airfield to receive its groceries, supplies and to move its community members to the close by towns. The runway was mostly utilized for evacuating sick people for medical attention to the hospital located over 5 hours of journey by road and after sunset the sick in the community had to wait all through the night for the arrival of the medevac crew in the morning. The installation of the runway edge and entry lighting and the lighting over the runway will enable the Tsay Keh Dene First Nation community and other communities of Williston Reservoir a safer runway to fly the supply and transport people even in the night.
Carmanah has been engaged in the deployment of solar powered airfield lights all over the world from 1996. It has installed lighting in major airports such as the Vancouver International Airport, Chicago O’Hare and LAX. The company provides solar lighting that functions without utilizing the grid connected power or generator power. The solar airfield lights supplied by the company enable easy and quicker installation and provide reliable lighting.