Solar Energy Provides Fundraiser for Church – Could Schools be Next?
Posted by Angela Costas on 14 Aug 2007 in: News
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A church was able to add additional revenue by selling unused power from its solar panels into the national power grid:
A new kind of fundraiser: Welsh church sells excess solar energy to government
An aging Anglican church in Wales has come up with a modern way to give – or at least sell – power to the people by marketing its spare electricity to Britain’s National Grid.
The power comes from the 30 solar panels that have been installed as part of a $1.5 million restoration at the crumbling, Victorian-era St. Joseph’s Church in Cwmaman, in the Cynon Valley.
Could school districts in the US come up with a similar plan? Of course the first step is to get the solar panels installed! The school board would need to do a research study to see the cost effectiveness of solar panels. This would include finding a company that provides solar panels for use in commercial or government buildings.
It would probably be a long term process, but the possibility of earning revenue back from selling excess energy to the grid would possibly make it worth while. Plus what a great lesson we’d be teaching kids about renewable energy. It’s worth checking out!
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This could definitely be an option for schools as a fundraiser. It could be correlated to the students’ studies by learning about science and the solar process.