The Solar Project
In Conjuction with ESF and RCHK Senior Leadership
The Pure Air Project
Developed with the help of TNC and their NatureWorks Programme
We aim to promote a healthy and sustainable lifestyle by improving air quality. We've come up with three solutions for eventual elimination:
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The Smog Free Tower
We're currently in contact with the makers of the smog-free tower (click here for the website) and assessing its feasibility in the school environment.
2. Dehumidifiers
Seeing as humidity is a common complain anong students anyways, using dehumidifiers as a way to control the volatility of chemicals in our air serves two purposes!
3. Air Purifiers
Pretty self-explanatory; just figure it out.
Starting off as Y12 student Jane Chan's PP Personal Project, this ongoing project regards supplying our school with solar panels, as part of CLP (The New Territories Electricity Company)'s FiT programme, and the HK government's initiative to create independent solar farms. She wrote a thorough proposal, evaluating different suppliers, our energy output, and sources for funding. She then pitched it to senior leadership, and it has since evolved into a large, ESF-wide project.
But that's enough for the summary. What's going on now?
The entire 10kW 32 panel system is now installed! That's enough electricity to power 200 LED lightbulbs. However, we are still waiting for final approval from CLP on our monitoring system, and whether the information we provide them is accurate. This is necessary because of where our funding came from: the feed-in-tariff (FiT) scheme.
Having never been attempted before, the feed-in-tariff scheme (FiT) is the first in HK to be offered by CLP and HKE. Applications have just opened last October, and we will be the first 5 schools in HK to be using it, and the only student-led intiative to do so.
It works by creating a financial incentive for private land-owners to adopt renewable energy, by paying producers of electricity for their energy. For our school, all the power we generate is sold to CLP at a high rate, and we split the profits between our investor and us. Hence, the electricity is dispersed in the CLP power grid, not exclusively in our school. It could be used in Baycrest, or WeGo Mall, or even all the way in Kowloon!
The Educate Project
Partnering with the IS programme
Head: Jenna Chan
Conceived at the beginning of summer 2018, the project is an ongoing effort to integrate our resources (entrak, recycling plant details) into the school's curriculum.
Though we've started with a focus on the IS department, we're looking to expand it further.