Schools in Japan Get Solar Boost as Part of Stimulus

A project to convert schools to solar power by 2020 has been launched by the Japanese government as part of their stimulus plan. CrunchGear reports:

Solar energy remains a hot topic (no pun intended) in Japan. As part of a huge economic stimulus plan, the government plans to convert all of the country’s 32,000 public elementary and middle schools to solar power by 2020. The aim: reduction of CO2 emissions and cutting long-term energy costs.

Conversion will cost between 650 and 980 million USD.

A part of me wants to draw comparisons between this operation and solar startups in Africa. A larger part of me is simply in awe of the project’s scale.