Work is due to start shortly on installing photovoltaic arrays at 14 primary and secondary schools across Aberdeenshire.

In North Kincardine, this work will take place at Lairhillock primary school. The main contractor is an Uddingston firm called Emtec Energy Ltd. Panels are mounted on to pitched or flat roofs.

The newly-opened primary school at Hillside ws built with solar panels on the roof.