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What assessment, if any, has been made of the potential for schools to generate solar power as part of reducing operational costs?

Answered Question 328 (2026)
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Scott Willis

List MP · Green Party

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  • What assessment, if any, has been made of the potential for schools to generate solar power as part of reducing operational costs?

Answered by

Hon Erica Stanford

Member for East Coast Bays · National Party · Minister of Education

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I am advised that the Ministry of Education has completed a high level assessment of schools’ solar potential by evaluating usable roof area, roof condition and life, and typical solar lifetimes, combined with weather data to estimate generation and indicative savings.