Could Thomas Telford School go solar?
A school's roof does its best work in July and August, when the sun peaks and the classrooms below sit empty — so the surplus heads to the grid. Thomas Telford School, a large city technology college in Telford, carries modern flat roofing over roughly 8,200 square metres. We estimate that could hold around 1.2 MW of solar and nearly 3,000 panels — an estimated 0.9 to 1.1 million kWh a year.
Roof area read from above: ~8,195 m²on a 7,934 m² building footprint.Imagery dated 2012-09-07.
Full methodology, assumptions and cross-checks: how we measure. Includes solar data from Google.
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