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BeamingPupils from Stonehenge School, (back row, from left) Jane Brown (14), Emma Palmer (14), Myles Gabriel (14) and Cory Dunford (14) and Amesbury Archer Primary School, (front, from left) Oliver Ivemy (8), Ellie Hutchinson (7), Lucy Brewer (11), and (front) Kate Parsons (5) join The Co-operative's colourful climate change character Sunny Solar to celebrate the official switch-on of their solar panels.

PUPILS at two Amesbury schools have switched on to energy saving with the aid of free solar panels.

Amesbury Archer and Stonehenge schools were among 100 throughout Britain chosen to receive the panels, worth £20,000 to each school, and funded half and half by The Co-operative Group and the government.

They should generate enough electricity every year to power a computer for 33,000 hours or to make 180,000 cups of tea for teachers at break time, saving around two tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions.

Pupils can keep track of how much renewable energy the panels are generating and the amount of carbon dioxide they have saved to date by checking a monitor in their school buildings.

Year Six pupil Lucy Brewer, who chairs the Amesbury Archer School Council, said: "We are an eco-friendly school and these solar panels show that we are serious about saving energy and helping our environment."

3:43pm Saturday 19th July 2008

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