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About

The solar projects you see in this site are the initiative of Its Time Foundation with the kind support of of our financial and equipment sponsored.

Its Time Foundation delivers renewable power solutions for remote Pacific Island schools, transforming education outcomes and reducing carbon emissions.

Many island schools struggle with no electricity supply, or rely on dirty diesel generators they can barely afford to run a couple/few hours per day. The kids have little or no chance of a modern education. With the generous support of its partners, Its Time Foundation provides clean, free electricity for lighting and computers and utterly transforms the education and prospects for generations of students that will attend the schools.

The money saved on generator fuel creates decades of cash flow to buy computers and other desperately needed education resources.

While the schools are not major emitters on a world scale, the projects are helping these communities take diesel generators offline and reduce their carbon footprint. They’re proud of that and it creates immediate and relevant opportunities for education about climate change and sustainability.

School Role & Facilities
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Boarders (live-in students):
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Our projects

Plastic Pick up Activity

Started: 2023 Status: Ongoing
One or more of our team spends at least 15 minutes each week (or at least one hour each month) picking up plastics in our area. So, we keep our small part of the earth as free of plastic as possible - it's a small action we do to protect marine and other wildlife. We hope all businesses and organisations in the world will join us in doing the same.

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Carbon Dioxide and Financial Savings
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Annual school fuel saving (litres) (1)

Annual fuel saving 0 teachers' homes getting solar (litres) (2)

Annual cartage saving (litres) (3)

Total annual fuel saving (litres) (4)

Fuel saving over 30 years (litres)

Annual CO2 saving (kgs)

CO2 saving over 30 years (kgs)

Annual AUD saving (8)

Annual USD saving

Annual FJD saving

30 yrs AUD saving

30 yrs USD saving

30 yrs FJD saving

Total of All It's Time Solar Schools

Total annual school fuel saving (litres)

20,540

Total annual fuel saving 91 teachers' homes getting solar (litres)

4,150

Total annual cartage saving (litres)

3,081

Total annual fuel saving (litres) (4)

27,886

Total fuel saving over 30 years (litres)

836,580

Total annual CO2 saving (kgs)

71,103

Total CO2 saving over 30 years (kgs)

2,133,277

Total annual AUD saving (8)

$ 78,672

Total annual USD saving

$ 53,489

Total annual FJD saving

$ 118,008

Total 30 yrs AUD saving

$ 2,360,160

Total 30 yrs USD saving

$ 1,578,540

Total 30 yrs FJD saving

$ 3,482,640

Assumptions

Fuel cost in the islands in AUD/litre (5)

2.00

Fuel cartage consideration % (3)

0.15

Annual fuel consumption per teacher's home wired (litres) (2)

50.00

Annual generator maintenance consideration AUD (6)

1500.00

CO2 produced per litre of fuel burned (kgs) (7)

2.55

AUD to USD conversion rate used

0.68

AUD to FJD conversion rate used

1.50

Notes

(1) This is the annual fuel consumption based on reporting from the school at the time of school survey and affirmed at the time of installation. It refers to direct fuel use by the school, not including teachers' homes.

(2) The fuel consumption of teachers' homes varies considerable between homes and over time. Their sources of energy varies from their own small generators to shared generators, still some use kerosene for lighting and some small solar (often failing) for lights and charging. Recently on Beqa Island two of the 7 households at one school were each using 10 litres of fuel per week and some were using very little. So, we have chosen the conservative underestimate of each household saving of 2 litres per week (approx. 5 kgs of CO2).

(3) Most schools have a cost to get fuel to the school - usually small boats and car/truck on the mainland. The costs vary from small amounts to some schools where the cartage cost is almost the same as the cost of the fuel itself. The cartage consideration (dollar and carbon cost) is a percentage of the total fuel consumption, because it varies widely from school to school we have chosen quite a conservative estimate.

(4) Includes cartage and teachers' home consumption estimate that therefore contribute to the total CO2 saving. But we do not include the teachers home in the financial saving - rather we just refer to the savings from the school generator.

(5) This is the current published diesel price in Fiji presented in AUD. Often the islands pay a higher price, but that is not factored in, so generally the price will be a small under estimation.

(6) Generators often require repairs and eventually replacement. That cost varies significantly from school to school, so a conservative value is applied to represent this component of cost/saving for all schools. It is not possible to calculate that accurately for every school, hence the estimate across all.

(7) Burning diesel produces CO2 at a rate of 2.68 kgs/litre, whereas petrol produces it at a rate of 2.31 kgs/litre. We have chosen 2.55 as the approximate for our calculations because there is more diesel used than petrol in the school generators.

(8) The fuel savings in the teachers' homes are not included in the calculation of financial savings for the school. Although teachers are asked to make a small contribution each term (FJD70) for their now 24-hour power and this goes to the school to buy more education resources.

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Inverters

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Number of panels

Array (watts)

Mountings

Mountings

Brand

Batteries

Battery type

Number of batteries

Kilowatt hours

Batteries mounted


Partners

Solar contractor

General electric works constractor

Contacts
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Enter all contacts e.g School Manager, Head Teacher, Principal. The more the better.
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