Friday, February 10, 2012

Solar Energy - School Installs Solar Panels - Off The Grid?




A Buckeye Union High school in Buckeye, Arizona installs many solar panels on school grounds. Sign out front states "No cost to you". Is this school a stepping stone for other schools to follow and eventually be considered self sustained? Youngker High School 3000 S. Apache Road Buckeye, Arizona 85326



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Care2.com

Solar Cells Made from Glass Clippings
Care2.com
Clearly this invention would probably have its best application in areas that are off the grid, and developing nations where large solar power installations could remain too expensive to install for some years. A similar technology is the solar oven, ...

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With solar panels, Tufts organization brings light to rural Haitian village
Tufts Daily
... (SEAH) recently completed the installation of an off-grid solar energy system in the rural community of Balan, Haiti. The panels electrify three rooms and illuminate the community space near Lycee Nationale Jacques Roumain, Balan's public school.




SILive.com

New school in Staten Island's Rossville section is a study in technological ...
SILive.com
By Jillian Jorgensen NYC School Construction AuthorityThis artist's rendering shows PS 62 in Rossville, its roof covered with photovoltaic solar panels. EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second in a series about the three new public schools scheduled to open ...

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Middlebury College to install solar farm
Addison County Independent
Next month it will install 34 photovoltaic solar power collectors on the open swathe of 1.5-acre college land off Route 125, between McCardell Bicentennial Hall and the college organic garden. The 143-kilowatt (kW) project, slated to go up in February, ...

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Sydney Morning Herald

Working parents go beyond the tuckshop
Sydney Morning Herald
Our School has just been granted $15000 + GST. A requirement is to install a system that monitors electricity generated by the solar panels versus that drawn from the grid. So it not only educates the children about renewable energy, but saves money ...

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