How solar panels in schools could build the country's largest virtual power plant
Installing solar panels on all of New Zealand's schools could generate 200 megawatts, with schools saving up to NZD 30 million a year.
The idea is part of a pitch called Empower Aotearoa, which recently won the GHD Smart Seeds innovation challenge in Auckland.
GHD's Smart Seeds is a 6-week design-led innovation programme in New Zealand, empowering the next generation of leaders to collaborate and collectively come up with solutions to some of the immediate challenges facing our communities.
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