Two government schools equipped with solar panels and water reservoirs managed to save a total of €58,877 in electricity and water in the last two and a half years.
The figures emerged in a parliamentary question, which also revealed that the Malta Environment and Planning Authority only managed to save €723 in fuel costs from electric cars.
Education minister Dolores Cristina said that money had been saved through the installation of solar panels and reservoirs at St Benedict College in Kirkop, and St Ignatious College at Tal-Handaq, Qormi.
St Benedict saved €4,297.14 in electricity costs between April 2005 and October 2008, and made savings of €39,240.91 in water collected in the reservoir.
St Ignatious saved €1,844.76 in electricity between September 2007 and October 2008, and €13,494.87 in water between September 2007 and August 2008.
Cristina said the calculations were based on the rates found on the Water Services Corporation website. She said every school being built will have more systems aimed at trapping alternative sources of energy.

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