TULLY -- With soaring gas prices, a local high school is turning to renewable energy.
Tully schools are using renewable energy sources these days. Students have spent three years developing a system to operate the school’s main scoreboard. According to a news released issued to CNY Central, “the system creates a solar and wind generated power source which has the ability to economically and environmentally last the duration of any school event. If the naturally generated power should deplete, the system switches to the electrical grid.”
Tully High School is also using a new, renewable energy car charging station run by wind and solar power. The school will have access to a Chevy ‘Volt’ at the end of the school year. The car can get 25 to 50 miles on a battery charge.
Students will use the ‘Volt’ in drivers’ education classes and for some school projects.
It will be charged on campus using, what school leaders believe, is the first public school-based energy charging station for electric cars.
