Rooftop Solar Panels Add Power to Welsh Schools
Children are more aware, these days, of the importance of looking after our planet and that our resources are limited. Some schools in Wales are not only including subjects about green energy sources but are actually using solar panels and wind turbines to power their schools.
In recent weeks, according to Walesonline.co.uk, two more schools in Wales have installed solar panel arrays as part of the Green Energy for Schools scheme, in a bid to increase our future generations awareness of the necessity of renewable energy sources.
The two most recent schools to participate in the jointly funded United Kingdom scheme were amongst the eighty that are earmarked to take part.
Radnor Valley County Primary School in Powys have installed an array of twenty-four solar panels capable of producing over 3,300KW of green electricity per year preventing in the order of two tonnes of carbon dioxide going back into the environment. Pupils, at the school can monitor the solar panels performance and record the savings on the earth’s resources.
The head teacher at Lewis Girls school near Caerphilly, the second of the most recent schools to take part in the scheme, has commented on how their system is helping to convey the importance of green issues to their pupils and that their installation is not only producing green electricity but is a valuable teaching aid supporting the school curriculum.
This goes to prove that solar panels will produce electricity even in Wales where sunshine cannot be guaranteed and this should encourage others to explore the possibilities of such installations so that we can all do our bit for our planet.
Around one million pounds has been invested, by the funding co-operative, into solar panel installations in schools across the United Kingdom since 2007 and due to the success of this, a further one million pounds is now being invested in similar projects utilizing, not only, solar panels but other forms of green energy producing systems such as wind-turbines and heat pumps.
