Worldlight helps photovoltaic campus, green power to support the dream of ‘low-carbon’ education

When photovoltaic comes to campus, it lights up not only a classroom, but also a low-carbon dream and low-carbon future.
In recent years, under the leadership of the dual-carbon strategy, photovoltaic power generation systems have been gradually stationed on campuses, which not only reduces the burden of electricity consumption in schools, but also creates economic benefits, plays a positive role in energy conservation and emission reduction and optimisation of the energy structure, and at the same time, becomes a vivid case of green energy education.

According to the ‘Implementation Plan for Green and Low-Carbon Leadership Actions in Public Institutions’ jointly issued by the Changzhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, Changzhou is promoting the ‘PV+Public Institutions’ model in an orderly manner, with the goal that by 2025, the proportion of newly constructed buildings in the city's public institutions that can be fitted with distributed photovoltaic (PV) power generation systems will reach 50 per cent.
As a key part of social development, the green transformation of schools is not only related to their own sustainable development, but also plays a demonstrative and leading role in the whole society.
Changzhou Fu Ruida Energy Co., Ltd (‘Fu Ruida’), the new energy enterprise under the energy sector of Riverside State Control, closely around the overall requirements of the ‘new energy city’, and actively participate in the city's new energy development, and rapidly promote the campus photovoltaic project to Practical action to practice the concept of green development, showing the responsibility and commitment of state-owned enterprises. Following the policy guidance, Vreda is committed to promoting the green transformation of campuses and contributing to the realisation of near-zero carbon campuses and sustainable development.

Rooftop photovoltaic construction at Spring River Elementary School

Vreda has transformed school roofs into PV positions. On the basis of the PV project of Chunjiang Central Primary School, which has been completed in 2023, the PV projects of Longcheng Junior High School, Xinqiao High School and Xixiashu Junior High School were successfully connected to the grid in September this year, and it is expected that the PV projects of Xuejia Middle School and Feilong Middle School will be connected to the grid at the end of October as well.
The total installed capacity of these projects is about 3.87MW, which not only solves the problem of waterproofing of school roofs, but also adds strong green vitality to the field of education. The distributed photovoltaic systems on unused school roofs follow the principle of ‘self-generation and self-consumption, with surplus power going online’, which is a powerful impetus to the construction of a near-zero-carbon campus. More than 34,000 square metres of unused roofs have now been ‘clothed’ in ‘photovoltaic clothing’ to enjoy ‘sunshine income’, and the average annual power generation is expected to be up to 3.5 million kWh, and the cumulative power generation over 25 years is equivalent to reducing carbon dioxide emissions by about 8 million kWh. The average annual power generation is expected to reach 3.5 million kWh, and the cumulative power generation over 25 years is equivalent to reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 87,000 tonnes, with an environmental benefit equivalent to planting 48,000 trees.

Rooftop photovoltaic construction at Fei Long Secondary School

Rooftop photovoltaic construction at Ryusei Junior High School

At the same time, Vreda's photovoltaic construction not only greatly relieves the school's power load pressure in hot summers and cold winters, but also provides a solid power guarantee for the campus' sustainable development and green transformation.

The use of campus photovoltaic, in promoting the campus green low-carbon development, reduce the cost of electricity at the same time, for students to provide a close to clean energy, understanding of the concept of sustainable development platform, can let the majority of teachers and students intuitive feeling of photovoltaic principle of work as well as its environmental and economic benefits, and further help the construction of the concept of low-carbon life.

In May this year, the ‘New Energy Exploration Team’ of Chunjiang Central Primary School went into Vooraida to experience the charm of solar photovoltaic power generation, the cutting-edge science and technology of modern power generation process, and deeply felt the vigorous development of new energy industry in Changzhou. The PV engineers of Voorita explained the principle and process of solar PV power generation to the students in detail, giving them a more intuitive and vivid understanding of new energy.