ENERGY
Close up of solar
panels at Lady Margaret
Primary School.
Amanda Hancock
with some of the panels
at Lady Margaret
Primary School.
School council
members celebrating
the panels at Wood End
Infant School.
‘CLEAN ENERGY FOR 20 YEARS
OR MORE’
Councillor Yvonne Johnson, the
council’s cabinet member for schools
and children’s services, said: “This
solar project is a win-win for the whole
borough. The panels will generate
clean energy for 20 years or more, and
it is a great way to help reduce our
greenhouse gas emissions.
“And, as well as being a greener
way to generate energy, the panels
will save the schools thousands of
pounds by cutting their bills. And It
is effectively a community-funded
project, so it hasn’t cost the council
anything other than officers’ time.
“What is more, the panels will also
provide pupils with an excellent, hands-
on opportunity for learning about
green energy, which will undoubtedly
be a big part of their future.
“I would like to thank Ealing
Transition, the Schools Energy Co-
Operative and the members of the
community who backed this scheme
for making it possible.”
Ealing Transition is now offering local
schools free energy surveys – to find
ways for any interested school to save
energy and costs even if its building is
not suitable for solar panels.
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