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British Gas offers free solar panels for UK schools

Written by: Roger Milne | 30 June 2010

British Gas has announced £15 million investment in solar technology for UK schools.
Under this initiative the company will donate and install solar panels - worth between £20,000 and £40,000 per school - in up to 750 schools. Each school will be able to generate its own free, green electricity, cutting as much as 20 per cent off its annual electricity bill.
The energy produced by the panels is anticipated to create around £1.3m per year for the next 25 year as a result of the new feed-in tariff arrangements.
British Gas plans to invest this revenue stream in installing solar panels on yet more schools via its Energy For Tomorrow Trust, a 'not for profit' trust fund established to invest in low carbon projects in the UK. This could mean that, in the next five years alone, British Gas could install free solar panels on a total of 1,100 schools.
Schools receiving solar panels will also receive a British Gas smart meter, offering real time information so pupils can see the difference their solar panels are making.
As well the energy company will provide specially created Generation Green lesson plans to help teachers enthuse their pupils about renewable energy.
British Gas has already earmarked half of the total investment to ensure that schools in low income areas benefit from the initiative, and intends to deliver the technology to these schools in conjunction with the Government's Community Energy Saving Programme (CESP).

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