Free Solar Panels For Schools
Wed, 25 January 2012
British Gas is taking applications for the second round of their Solar School programme – on a first come, first serve basis.
Apply at www.mysolarschool.co.uk.
This is an opportunity for Solar PV panels to be installed at no cost to the schools. Panels will be paid for by the ‘Energy for Tomorrow’ fund. Schools will be able to benefit from:
- Reduced annual energy bills*
- Reduced carbon emissions*
- Pupil’s awareness of using energy sparingly and creating it from renewable sources
* Based on like for like energy consumption over the relevant comparative periods
The energy company hopes to install systems between 4kWp and 50kWp in up to 150 schools.
This year’s scheme is on a first-come first-served basis. Schools on the Phase-1 reserve list will NOT be automatically carried-forward, they must apply for the Phase-2 scheme.
Schools taking aprt will not be eligible for the Feed-in-Tariff. Instead, this will be assigned to the British Gas Energy For Tomorrow fund which is paying for the installation for the purposes of this scheme. This is an independently run, non-profit organisation dedicated to developing renewable energy sources and technologies for the future. Schools will benefit from being able to use the electricity generated which could mean electricity and carbon savings as a result of needing to buy less electricity from an energy supplier.
The scheme will take applications on their website until 23.59 on Friday 10th February 2012: www.mysolarschool.co.uk.