Solar panels first for school

Oct 23 2007 by Liam Murphy, Liverpool Daily Post

A WIRRAL school is set to become one of the greenest in the country when solar panels are installed with funding from a public-private partnership.

Clare Mount Specialist Sports College in Moreton is one of the first to benefit from a £1m national Green Energy for Schools scheme to provide free solar panels to 100 schools.

The panels, worth more than £20,000 to each school, are half funded through The Co-operative’s scheme with match funding from the Government.

Clare Mount College’s acting headteacher Jane Wylde said: “To be one of the first schools in the country to receive free solar panels through The Co-operative’s Green Energy for Schools scheme is fantastic.

“Schools have a vital role to play in educat- ing the next generation about climate change and using this technology will help us to really bring that message home.”

A monitor screen in the school building will display how much energy the panels are generating and how much carbon dioxide they have saved to date.