{"id":19761,"date":"2018-03-07T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T20:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=19761"},"modified":"2018-04-23T14:59:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T04:29:23","slug":"castlemaine-market-building-solar-mb0493","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/castlemaine-market-building-solar-mb0493\/","title":{"rendered":"Castlemaine&#8217;s Historic Market Building Going Solar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19762\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19762\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19762\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/market-building-solar.jpg\" alt=\"Market Building - Solar Energy\" width=\"700\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/market-building-solar.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/market-building-solar-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19762\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: Mount Alexander Shire Council<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Old meets new &#8211; the Market Building in Castlemaine will have solar panels installed this month, with the blessing of Heritage Victoria.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Completed in 1862, the complex originally boasted 22 shops selling local fresh foods and products. The building is a mix of Australian colonial, Greek and Roman Classical Revival styles, and was dedicated to Ceres, the Roman goddess of harvest &#8211; so it&#8217;s quite fitting that it will soon be harvesting the sun.<\/p>\n<p>A small <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/commercial-solar-guide.html\">commercial solar<\/a> system (14.5kW) will be installed on the roof the building, which these days is primarily used as the Castlemaine Visitor Information Centre. The PV array is expected to generate around half of the electricity consumed by the building and save Mount Alexander Shire Council approximately $5,000 each year. A similar sized system installed on Castlemaine&#8217;s Civic Center is generating around 20,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity annually.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe Market Building has a large roof area and is occupied nearly every day of the year with our Visitor Information Centre. This makes it an ideal location to benefit from solar panels,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountalexander.vic.gov.au\/Page\/Page.aspx?Page_Id=2878\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> said<\/a> Council&#8217;s Rebecca Stockfeld.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It can get rather toasty inside the premises, reaching 35 degrees in summer, and the solar panels will offset electricity used for cooling.<\/p>\n<p>Given the building&#8217;s heritage listing, the project needed approval from Heritage Victoria and the system has been designed in a way so that the solar panels won&#8217;t be seen from street level surrounds.<\/p>\n<p>Another iconic Castlemaine building harvesting the power of the sun is the Town Hall. In 2015, 120 solar panels (30kW total system capacity) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/inverters\/enphase-review.html\">Enphase microinverters<\/a> were installed on its rooftop.<\/p>\n<p>Council has also supported solar energy initiatives in the wider community, including the Solar Savers scheme that assisted pensioners in having PV installed, with the cost paid off through savings via Council rates. It is also encouraging businesses to take advantage of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountalexander.vic.gov.au\/Page\/Page.aspx?Page_Id=3023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Environmental Upgrade Agreements<\/a> that enable eligible commercial property owners to install solar systems and other energy efficiency upgrades, with up 100% of project costs repaid through Council rates on a quarterly basis.<\/p>\n<p>Mount Alexander Shire Council has a fixed target for achieving carbon neutrality for its own operations between 2025- 2040 and is aiming to achieve it at the start of the time-frame. Solar energy will continue to play an important role in realising its carbon neutrality goal, with more to be rolled out on Council facilities in the years ahead.<\/p>\n<p>The Council&#8217;s Climate Change Action Plan 2016 &#8211; 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountalexander.vic.gov.au\/files\/Environment\/2_Mount_Alexander_Climate_Change_Action_Plan_-_Final_Document_-_Adopted_by_Council.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> can be viewed here<\/a> (PDF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old meets new &#8211; the Market Building in Castlemaine will have solar panels installed this month, with the blessing of Heritage Victoria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":19762,"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":[683,678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commercial-solar","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>Castlemaine&#039;s Historic Market Building Going Solar - SolarQuotes Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Old meets new - the Market Building in Castlemaine will have solar panels installed this month, with the blessing of Heritage Victoria.\" \/>\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\/castlemaine-market-building-solar-mb0493\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Castlemaine&#039;s Historic Market Building Going Solar\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Old meets new - the Market Building in Castlemaine will have solar panels installed this month, with the blessing of Heritage Victoria.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/castlemaine-market-building-solar-mb0493\/\" \/>\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=\"2018-03-06T20:30:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-04-23T04:29:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/market-building-solar.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"700\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"386\" \/>\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\\\/castlemaine-market-building-solar-mb0493\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/castlemaine-market-building-solar-mb0493\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"Castlemaine&#8217;s Historic Market Building Going Solar\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-03-06T20:30:12+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-04-23T04:29:23+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/castlemaine-market-building-solar-mb0493\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":428,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/castlemaine-market-building-solar-mb0493\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/03\\\/market-building-solar.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Commercial Solar\",\"General Solar &amp; 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