SolarAid is a British international development charity that promotes the use of solar energy to help reduce global poverty and climate change. Sunny schools is SolarAid’s first UK-based project which, thanks to support from the City Bridge Trust, will be starting in London primary schools.

Sunny Schools is currently running a pilot project, but will soon be looking for enthusiastic teacher champions in London to run the programme in their primary school starting this September. If you would like to be a part of this exciting scheme, please contact Kathy Hill, SolarAid’s Development Education Coordinator, on info@solar-aid.org for more information.

Read more about SolarAid and Sunny schools.

Will Anderson

Will Anderson, an ambitious self-builder, built himself a house which is completely energy self-sufficient and which generates more power and heat on site than it consumes.
‘The tree house’, as the project is known, features a solar PV roof which generates enough power to run the ground source heat pumps, even on cloudy days!

The solar panels on his roof he produce 4,400 units, enough for all the heating and power throughout the year.

Read the rest of the story and find out more info on the Telegraph website and let us know about any other cool self-build projects.