{"id":23151,"date":"2018-08-01T06:38:15","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T20:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=23151"},"modified":"2018-08-01T06:38:15","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T20:08:15","slug":"large-scale-renewables-charter-mb0689","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/large-scale-renewables-charter-mb0689\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Practice Charter For Australian Renewable Energy Developments Launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23152\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23152\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23152\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/renewable-energy-charter.jpg\" alt=\"Solar farm\" width=\"700\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/renewable-energy-charter.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/renewable-energy-charter-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-23152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/solar-panels-renewable-energy-3507949\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> sarangib<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The nature of community relationships can make or break large-scale renewable energy projects and Australia&#8217;s renewables sector is becoming increasingly aware of this.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>While Australia&#8217;s large-scale wind and solar power industry has a fairly good track record on community engagement, sometimes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/warwick-solar-farm-mb0478\/\">communications break down<\/a> and that leads to confusion, rumours and misinformation &#8211; resulting in resistance to renewable energy projects.<\/p>\n<p>Where there is resistance, this can result in delays and changes in plans that can be costly. It&#8217;s in everyone&#8217;s interests that the road to establishing solar and wind farms is as smooth as possible, and the ongoing relationship with communities is amicable and mutually beneficial.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, thirty-seven major businesses signed on to a new best practice charter developed by the Clean Energy Council, which was launched at the Australian Clean Energy Summit.<\/p>\n<p>The ten pledges of the charter, in summary:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Engaging respectfully with communities.<\/li>\n<li>Providing timely information and responsiveness to community feedback and concerns.<\/li>\n<li>Being sensitive in terms of biodiversity, cultural and landscape value of sites.<\/li>\n<li>Minimising impact on highly productive agricultural land.<\/li>\n<li>Consulting with communities on impacts, such as traffic and noise.<\/li>\n<li>Supporting local economies through employment and procurement opportunities.<\/li>\n<li>Sharing of benefits.<\/li>\n<li>Supporting educational and tourism opportunities where appropriate.<\/li>\n<li>Responsible land stewardship over the life of projects.<\/li>\n<li>Responsible decommissioning or refurbishing of projects when they reach the end of their service life.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The full charter can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleanenergycouncil.org.au\/dam\/cec\/policy-and-advocacy\/best-practice-charter\/best-practice-charter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">viewed here<\/a> (PDF).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cRenewable energy is now the lowest cost kind of energy generation we can build today, and regional communities will see more of these projects over the coming decades,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleanenergycouncil.org.au\/news\/2018\/July\/new-charter-communities-centre-renewable-energy-developments.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Clean Energy Council Chief Executive Kane Thornton. &#8220;The industry understands we need to invest strongly in bringing local communities with us on the journey to secure the clean energy sector\u2019s long-term success.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Among the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleanenergycouncil.org.au\/cec\/policy-advocacy\/best-practice-charter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> dozens of companies<\/a> to sign on to the Charter are ESCO Pacific, Hydro Tasmania, Photon Energy, SolarReserve, Windlab and Tesla.<\/p>\n<p>In the event a signatory company doesn&#8217;t live up to the spirit of the Charter, the CEC may remove the company from the list and make the date of that removal public. It mightn&#8217;t sound like too harsh a penalty, but savvy developers would understand the ongoing impact that could have. Given the clout of the CEC, being listed and maintaining a good standing may also come into play when developers are seeking planning approvals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nature of community relationships can make or break large-scale renewable energy projects and Australia&#8217;s renewables sector is becoming increasingly aware of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":23152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23151","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 v28.5 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Best Practice Charter For Australian Renewable Energy Developments Launched<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Community views can make or break large-scale renewable energy projects and Australia&#039;s renewables sector is becoming increasingly aware of this.\" \/>\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\/large-scale-renewables-charter-mb0689\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Best Practice Charter For Australian Renewable Energy Developments Launched\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Community views can make or break large-scale renewable energy projects and Australia&#039;s renewables sector is becoming increasingly aware of this.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/large-scale-renewables-charter-mb0689\/\" \/>\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=\"2018-07-31T20:08:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/renewable-energy-charter.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"700\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"382\" \/>\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\\\/large-scale-renewables-charter-mb0689\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/large-scale-renewables-charter-mb0689\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"Best Practice Charter For Australian Renewable Energy Developments Launched\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-07-31T20:08:15+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/large-scale-renewables-charter-mb0689\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":416,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/large-scale-renewables-charter-mb0689\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/08\\\/renewable-energy-charter.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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