Sunny Side Up!

A group of KS2 able scientists visited West Solent Solar Farm in Lymington last week as part of the charity's community programme.

Even though it was a dull day, the solar farm was still busy making electricity and feeding it into the national grid.

At full capacity, the farm can generate 2000kW and can boil 700 kettles simultaneously, which means that fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas are not being burned instead.

The farm cost over £2.6 million to build and it was funded by over 500 members of the local community.

We learned how the electrons from silicon are released into the circuits embedded into the panels by photons arriving in sunlight. These are then collected and pushed through technology called inverters, which then flow through the site's transformer and substation into the grid.

Have a look at the photos (click below!) as we represent the school out in the community, learning science at the same time!