One school in Cornwall uses solar PV for heating Gym and Swimming Pool

The Truro school located in Cornwall is one of the pioneers walking towards the brave new world of green energy, they invested in one of the largest installations of solar panels in the UK, a roof hosted solar PV array capable of delivering 85kWp. 

The solar panels are hosted on the roofs of the Gym class and the swimming pool and the system consists of over 330 ReneSolar modules, working together with Power One Aurora inverters.

 The project will help the school to reduce the costs of the electricity bill every year and also will contribute to a greener environment, at least that's the theory with the carbon footprint.

Renewable Energy Co-operative took care of the installation, they are of course, part of the Co-operatives UK, I don’t know about you folks but that sounds a little bit like USSR and socialism, they were obsessed with co-operativisation.

 Anyway, 2012 was the international year of Co-Operatives, again, sounds like international socialism to me, but maybe I am a little bit paranoid, I just don't like the rhetoric.

 The idea behind this concept was to grow the Gross Domestic Product from the co-operative sector to 20 percent, from the 2 percent in the present.

 Mr. Abe Cambridge, the Technical Director of Renewable Energy Co-operative stated that:

"As a co-operative we abide by the co-op principles that emphasize the importance of working in the education sector. R-ECO has now installed over a quarter of a MW on schools alone and we hope to do many more!"

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