1 in 7 US Students Now Attend Solar-Powered Schools
What happened
- Solar power abhi 10,800 se zyada US K-12 schools ko power kar raha hai, jiska matlab hai ki har 7 students ek solar-powered school mein padhte hain.
- Generation180 ki report ke mutabik, solar aur battery storage ko track karne par 7 million students shamil hain.
- Solar-powered schools ki sankhya 2016 mein 5,450 se lagbhag double ho gayi hai, aur unki total solar capacity 2.4 gigawatts se zyada ho gayi hai.
- California mein 2,921 solar-powered schools hain, jo desh ka 70% hissa hai.
- School districts jaise Roanoke City Public Schools (Virginia) ne sirf solar se 35 saal mein $46.5 million ki energy cost bachayi hai.
Why it matters for me
Solar energy school districts ke liye kharcha kam karne aur facilities improve karne ka ek tareeka hai. Yeh clean energy students ko future economy ke liye taiyar karti hai. School solar, community resilience hubs ban sakte hain jo grid failure ke time lights on rakh sakte hain aur backup power provide kar sakte hain.
What to remember
- Battery storage abhi bhi K-12 schools mein kam hai; 2016 se sirf 155 schools mein battery systems install hui hain.
- School batteries excess solar power store karke peak electricity demand ko kam karne aur outage ke dauran critical equipment ko chalate rehne mein madad karte hain.
- Battery storage federal Clean Electricity Investment Credit ke liye qualify karta hai, jisse schools isse access kar sakte hain.
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Source: electrek.co