{"id":14077,"date":"2017-08-15T06:07:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T19:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=14077"},"modified":"2017-08-15T10:36:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T00:06:14","slug":"parkes-solar-panels-mb0166","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/parkes-solar-panels-mb0166\/","title":{"rendered":"Parkes Harnesses Solar Energy To Slash Electricity Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14079\" style=\"width: 646px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14079\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14079\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/parkes-council-solar-panels.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/parkes-council-solar-panels.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/parkes-council-solar-panels-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14079\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Solar Power In Parkes | Image : <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=20061804\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Public Domain<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Two 100kW solar power systems have been installed for Parkes Shire Council in New South Wales, which combined will generate 612 megawatt hours of clean electricity a year.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The solar panel arrays were installed at the new Parkes Water and Sewage Treatment Plants and will offset the energy consumption of both facilities.<\/p>\n<p>The project is part of Council&#8217;s Distributed Energy Plan, designed to tackle the potential impacts of climate change and increasing energy costs. Council is now investigating more solar power opportunities at\u00a0 its other water infrastructure sites, plus battery storage and virtual net metering.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from Council&#8217;s direct efforts, there&#8217;s been a whole lot of solar going on in the Parkes region for years.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,000 small scale solar power systems are installed in the 2870 postcode, with a collective capacity of just north of 5 megawatts.\u00a0 Around 300 of those systems were the result of\u00a0 the Parkes Shire Solar Communities program, which Council coordinated. The effort saw the\u00a0 area becoming one of the highest per capita adopters of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/solar101.html\">rooftop solar power<\/a> in New South Wales.<\/p>\n<p>Also in the pipeline for the region is the <a href=\"http:\/\/parkessolarfarm.com.au\/\">Parkes Solar Farm<\/a>, a 66MW project featuring 206,000 solar panels that will be constructed at a site 10km west of the town, assuming it receives the necessary approvals. The solar farm will generate around 138,000 megawatt hours annually and produce enough electricity to power approximately 21,000 homes.<\/p>\n<h2>Local Governments Leading The Way<\/h2>\n<p>The commissioning of <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/RJJsFB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parkes Shire Council&#8217;s systems<\/a> add to a rapidly growing list of council projects across Australia reaping the benefits of harvesting the power of the sun. Other local government efforts we&#8217;ve mentioned in the past few months include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/lismore-community-solar-council-mb0034\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lismore<\/a> (NSW)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/bathurst-council-solar-panels-mb0015\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bathurst<\/a> (NSW)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/warrnambool-solar-powered-lights-mb0127\/\">Warrnambool<\/a> (VIC)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/tamworth-council-solar-power-mb0026\/\">Tamworth<\/a> (NSW)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/renewable-energy-eurobodalla-mb0081\/\">Eurobodalla<\/a> (NSW)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/sunshine-coast-solar-operational-mb0135\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sunshine Coast<\/a> (QLD)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-canterbury-bankstown-mb0161\/\">Canterbury Bankstown<\/a> (NSW)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/euroa-solar-power-mb0104\/\">Euroa<\/a> (VIC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>35 councils, representing more than 12 per cent of Australia&#8217;s population, are participating in the Climate Council&#8217;s Cities Power Partnership that encourages a switch to renewable energy and sustainable transport.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Cities Power Partnership is about accelerating, celebrating and promoting local council\u2019s achieving emissions reductions and transitioning towards renewable energy technologies like wind and solar, all on home soil,&#8221; 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