Ministers are considering installing solar panels on disused school land to help them generate their own electricity.
Academies minister Baroness Barran told the Schools and Academies Show today her department was “trying… to maximise the value when schools have significant excess land”.
She said the Department for Education was “doing some work to see whether we could use some space for solar panels so that schools could generate their own electricity”.
Officials are also looking into building affordable housing on sites with excess land, which would raise money and “provide much-needed housing”.
