Solar grant for Chagford Primary School

By PRSD, on Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Chagford Primary School has secured nearly £44,000 for solar photo voltaic panels at the school.

The school received the grant as part of the Lower Carbon Building Programme and is the highest amount of funding secured amongst the 11 feeder schools to Okehampton College. Match funding is still needed.

Okehampton College itself has recently installed 3kwh of photo voltaic panels.

If you want know more or to get involved call Ginette Ruthven 01647 433895

• Okehampton Community College is at the hub of a national scale photo voltaic project. Okehampton Community College is part of a community of 12 schools which plan to install around 130kWp of photovoltaics among other energy measures.

The college has already installed a 10kW PV array and has been leading the project to install similar systems in all of it’s 11 feeder primary schools.

You can even view the college’s dashboard of energy production and usage.

Daryll Chapman Okehampton Community College Principal said: “We want to be seen as pro-active and to have every school in the learning community focussing on saving energy.”

The college has seen a drop in the amount of electric consumed. November 2008 saw 22% less electricity used than in the previous year.

The college has been working closely with Okehampton Primary School, which is also set to install solar panels after securing £29,000 grant from the Low Carbon Trust.

Dare in partnership with Envison have provided energy audits for the 11 feeder primary schools within the Okehampton College learning community and Dare also contributed to the college’s recent Energy Evening series of presentations to parents and the wider community.

posted by Cptn