Council urged to do its bit to cut school electricity bills

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Schools across Hampshire could be earning hundreds of thousands of pounds a year if Hampshire County Council helps them to install solar panels, Friends of the Earth urged today (13th October 2014).

A freedom of information request by the environment charity revealed that Hampshire’s 530 schools spent a whopping £5.7million on electricity in 2013-14. (Portsmouth’s 60 schools spent  £677,582 on electricity in 2013-14. Southampton’s 74 schools spent £1million on electricity in 2013-14).

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