The Energy Council looked at the solar data for the school over the summer months and compared it to recent weeks. It is very clear that as a school we make a lot of solar energy, and a lot of this gets sold back to the National Grid in the summer holidays when pupils are not here.
It was noted by the members that this is a good thing for the community as the school building is not being used at the time so this means it is not wasted space. A discussion was then started about turning other disused areas into places to generate solar energy and the suitability of some of these places in our local area.
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Many schools have photovoltaic panels which produce energy from sunlight. These panels reduce the school's electricity consumption from the National Electricity Grid and reduce the school's carbon emissions, as electricity produced from solar panels produces very little carbon. Solar panels also save schools money.
Our downloadable worksheet on the right uses the data from one of our Energy Sparks schools to explore how much energy can be provided by solar panels and how much this might cost.
If you have solar panels your own solar data will be shown below and can be used to answer the questions on the sheet.
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