“Solar PV systems should be up and running at twelve schools
very early in the new academic year so those institutions should soon see
savings on their electricity bills. Even though the PV systems should help to
lower energy bills the staff and students at each of these schools should still
be rigorous about conservation and efficient energy usage in order to reap
continual savings from this investment”
PCJ’s Group General
Manager, Winston Watson, commenting on the installation of the solar Panels at
some twelve (12) schools across Jamaica
Come September 2015, when schools re-open, at least twelve of
them will be running on Solar Power.
The PCJ (Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica) has finally completed
the installation of photovoltaics at twelve (12) high schools across Jamaica by
the end of September 2015 as reported in the article “Solar
Panels Installed In 12 Schools To Cut Gov't's Electricity Bill”, published
Thursday September 3, 2015, The Jamaica
Gleaner.
So who are the lucky schools to get solar panels? If you think
really hard, you’ve actually heard this bit of news before!
Fifteen High Schools
to Get Solar Panels – Universities should follow Solar PV Project to save on Electricity
Bill
The lucky schools to get Solar Panels are the same ones that
were supposed to have had solar panels installed as part of a JA$62 million
Solar Photovoltaic Project announced back in June 2014 as reported in my blog article
entitled “PCJ
to install JA$62 million Solar Panels Systems - 15 Schools and 3 GOJ
Institution Guinea-Pigs has Wigton III Project Venezuelan Connection”.
Despite the title of the reference article, there is a total of
fifteen (15) not twelve high schools that are involved in the JA$62 million
Solar Photovoltaic Project. That original list of fifteen (15) schools is as
follows:
1. Ardenne
High
2. Clarendon
College
3. Dinthill
Technical High School
4. Glenmuir
High School
5. Hampton
School for Girls
6. Kingston
High School
7. Munro
College
8. Norman
Manley High School
9. Old
Harbour High School
10. Rose
Hill Primary School
11. St
Catherine High School
12. St
Elizabeth Technical High School
13. St
Hugh’s High School
14. Vere
Technical High School
15. Wolmer’s
Girls’ School
Twelve (12) of them have had their solar panels installed as
part of Phase I of the project as listed in the Press release titled “Installation in
progress under PCJ Solar PV Systems for Schools Initiative”, published
2015-09-02, The Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica, Go-Jamaica:
1. Ardenne
High
2. Clarendon
College
3. Glenmuir
High
4. Hampton
School for Girls
5. Munro
College
6. Norman
Manley High
7. Old
Harbour High
8. St.
Elizabeth Technical High
9. Vere
Technical High
10. Dinthill
Technical High
11. St.
Catherine High
12. Wolmers
Girls’ Schools
Phase II of the project will involve the installation of Solar
Panels ate the remaining three (3) high schools and three (3) additional Government
Agencies:
1. Kingston
High
2. Rose
Hill Primary
3. St.
Hugh’s High School
There are also three (3) executive agencies that are also being
taken off the grid and placed on Solar Power! They fall under the Ministry of
Science, Technology, Energy and Mining and are basically Test Guinea-pigs
before the JA$62 million Solar Photovoltaic Project is expanded to GOJ Buildings:
1. SRC
(Scientific Research Council)
2. ODPEM
(Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management)
3. PCJ
(Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica)
Looks like I was right after all about the PCJ (Petroleum
Corporation of Jamaica) plans, as these eighteen (18) installations will save
the GOJ on their electricity bill:
1. 344,000
kilowatt hours of energy per annum
2. JA$16
million annually on electricity bills
No doubt this'll be expanded to other High schools and GOJ
Executive agencies and Ministries.
Hopefully, too they'll change out the Air conditioning, as a
JA$62 million Solar Photovoltaic Project is pointless if the equiptment isn't
optimize to efficiently use the electricity generated.
Also I'm hoping that the various Universities such as the UWI (University of the West Indies) and MICO University College seeks assistance
from the PCJ to gradually take their campus off the Grid!
Here’s the link:
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