{"id":13396,"date":"2017-07-24T08:22:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T21:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=13396"},"modified":"2017-07-24T08:22:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T21:52:53","slug":"lindeman-island-solar-storage-mb0136","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/lindeman-island-solar-storage-mb0136\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar + Storage Proposed For Lindeman Island Resort Redevelopment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13398\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13398\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13398\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/lindeman-island-solar.jpg\" alt=\"Solar power and storage for Lindeman Island\" width=\"700\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/lindeman-island-solar.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/lindeman-island-solar-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13398\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lindeman Island Resort Redevelopment | White Horse Australia Lindeman<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Redevelopment of Queensland&#8217;s Lindeman Island Resort could incorporate a significant level of solar power and battery storage according to a <span id=\"releaseContent3\">draft environmental impact statement (EIS) released on the weekend<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"releaseContent\">Lindeman Island\u2019s resort has been out of action since 2012, following substantial damage wreaked by Cyclone Yasi in 2011.\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"releaseContent\">\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"releaseContent\">White Horse Australia Lindeman has proposed a $583 million redevelopment and expansion consisting of three resorts, a tourist villa precinct and luxury camping facilities. The projects will create 300 jobs each during construction and 300 operational jobs once completed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"releaseContent\">Operating all that infrastructure is going to require a lot of energy. When the resort was operational previously, all electricity was supplied by diesel generators located at the island&#8217;s power-house. Load demand for the new development is estimated to be around about 4 times that of the existing resort.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A previous report (2015) looked at three options for the new development.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span id=\"releaseContent\">Grid power supply from the mainland<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span id=\"releaseContent\">100% diesel generation<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span id=\"releaseContent\"> Hybrid diesel-solar generation<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The up-front cost of the mainland supply ($108,135,500) was estimated at more than 7 times that of the h<span id=\"releaseContent1\">ybrid diesel-solar generation option ($14,100,000). However, annual running costs would have been around 10% cheaper. The all-diesel option up-front cost ($5,550,000) was far cheaper than hybrid diesel\/solar, but annual costs much higher ($5,256,000 vs $3,604,000).<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"releaseContent5\"> Hybrid Diesel-<\/span><span id=\"releaseContent5\">Solar + Storage The Preferred Option<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span id=\"releaseContent0\">White Horse Australia directed a further investigation of the hybrid diesel-solar option, with view to fulfilling its vision of developing a world-class eco-resort. The company that undertook the investigation was Cardno, an infrastructure and environmental services firm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The system studied by Cardno comprises a mini-grid consisting of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/cost\/\">solar panels<\/a>, large scale <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/battery-storage\/\">battery storage<\/a> and diesel generation.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"releaseContent0\">Cardno analysed and modelled the hybrid system on a number of scenarios offering various levels of solar electricity generation &#8211; from 35% to around 93%. Cardno found a system with a target of ~75% renewables ratio provides the best bang for buck, but based on the latest masterplan the level likely to be achieved is between 35% to 44%<\/span><span id=\"releaseContent0\"> given the limited land available for ground-mount solar panel arrays.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Roof-mounted solar panels would be located around the central village, retail precinct, staff accommodation and the aircraft hangars, enabling minimum capacity of approximately 3 MW peak. A further 2.7MW capacity could be installed on available land area in the form of ground-mount solar arrays.<\/p>\n<p>Cardno states the existing powerhouse area is ideally suited to house a central energy storage system, power management and mini-grid control systems.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13397\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/lindeman-island-batteries.jpg\" alt=\"Lindeman Island battery storage\" width=\"477\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/lindeman-island-batteries.jpg 477w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/lindeman-island-batteries-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"releaseContent0\">The firm says the estimated capital investment for a level of <\/span><span id=\"releaseContent2\"> 35% to 44%<\/span><span id=\"releaseContent2\"> of electricity provided by solar power<\/span><span id=\"releaseContent0\"> is between $15M to $25M, with an estimated payback period between 3 to 8 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"releaseContent0\">The Queensland Government has welcome the EIS.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span id=\"releaseContent\">\u201cThe redevelopment is consistent with the Palaszczuk Government\u2019s Advancing Tourism plan to drive growth and jobs in the tourism industry. However, it is within the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area and it\u2019s important that appropriate safeguards are in place to protect the Reef,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/735Ryt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> State Development Minister Dr Anthony Lynham.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Public comment on the Lindeman Island resort <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/59GUfZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Draft Environmental Impact Statement<\/a> is invited and open until 4 September 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Redevelopment of Queensland&#8217;s Lindeman Island Resort could incorporate a significant level of solar power and battery storage according to a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) released on the weekend. Lindeman Island\u2019s resort has been out of action since 2012, following substantial damage wreaked by Cyclone Yasi in 2011.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":13398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-battery-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Solar + Storage Proposed For Lindeman Island Resort Redevelopment - SolarQuotes Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Redevelopment of Lindeman Island resort could include solar power and battery storage states a draft environmental impact statement released on Saturday.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/lindeman-island-solar-storage-mb0136\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Solar + Storage Proposed For Lindeman Island Resort Redevelopment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Redevelopment of Lindeman Island resort could include solar power and battery storage states a draft environmental impact statement released on Saturday.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/lindeman-island-solar-storage-mb0136\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SolarQuotes Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SolarQuotes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-07-23T21:52:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-07-23T21:52:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/lindeman-island-solar.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"700\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"431\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Bloch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/lindeman-island-solar-storage-mb0136\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/lindeman-island-solar-storage-mb0136\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"Solar + Storage Proposed For Lindeman Island Resort Redevelopment\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-07-23T21:52:15+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-07-23T21:52:53+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/lindeman-island-solar-storage-mb0136\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":525,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/lindeman-island-solar-storage-mb0136\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/07\\\/lindeman-island-solar.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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