{"id":24396,"date":"2018-09-20T07:33:14","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T21:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=24396"},"modified":"2024-07-02T15:18:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T05:48:56","slug":"sunshine-coast-solar-award-mb0754","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/sunshine-coast-solar-award-mb0754\/","title":{"rendered":"More Accolades For Sunshine Coast Solar Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24397\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/sunshine-coast-solar-farm.jpg\" alt=\"Another award for Sunshine Coast Solar Farm\" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/sunshine-coast-solar-farm.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/sunshine-coast-solar-farm-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/sunshine-coast-solar-farm-768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Queensland&#8217;s Sunshine Coast Solar farm has picked up another award, this time at the Australian Regional Development Conference Awards 2018.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The 15MW solar farm project took out the Environmental and Sustainability Award at the event, part of the 2018 Australian Regional Development Conference held at Twin Towns Services Club, Tweed Heads, earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Previous recognition for the project includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wendy Chadwick Encouragement Award for Innovation at the Planning Institute of Australia Awards<\/li>\n<li>Local Government Managers Australia (Queensland) Award for Sustainability Excellence<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/sunshine-coast-solar-award-mb0721\/\"> Environmental Leadership and Sustainability Award<\/a> at the Local Government Professionals Australia National Federation Awards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the time of publishing, Sunshine Coast Solar Farm had generated 31,514.3 MWh of electricity since installation, avoiding 24,581.1 tonnes of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n<p>In July this year, Sunshine Coast Council said the project had saved it (and ratepayers) $1.7 million to that point, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/sunshine-coast-solar-farm-mb0687\/\">more than double<\/a> it had hoped for in the facility&#8217;s first year of operation. The clean power station is offsetting more than 100% of Council&#8217;s electricity consumption, with revenue generated by Council selling the surplus. The council was the first in Australia to offset all of its electricity consumption with renewable energy.<\/p>\n<p>The $50.4 million clean power station, which features more than 57,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/trina-review.html\">Trina solar panels<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/inverters\/sma-review.html\">SMA solar inverters<\/a>,\u00a0 is expected to save Council\/ratepayers $22 million over a 30-year period &#8211; after costs, but based on today&#8217;s electricity costs.<\/p>\n<p>The benefits have and will continue to go beyond the bottom line.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cCouncil is now endeavouring to leverage the solar farm to expand the region\u2019s clean tech capabilities and product offerings, which would help drive increased employment opportunities in this industry,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au\/news\/sustainability-at-the-solar-farm-succeeds-again-180918\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Mayor Mark Jamieson. \u201cAs far as game-changing projects go, this is one that just keeps delivering for our region.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Division 9 Councillor Steve Robinson says the project has generated interest from schools, universities, community groups and other local governments, and educational opportunities associated with the solar farm were continuing to be pursued.<\/p>\n<p>Sunshine Coast Solar Farm is situated at Yandina-Coolum Road, Valdora, which is approximately 116 km north of Brisbane.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Council is striving to become Australia\u2019s most sustainable region and the Sunshine Coast Solar Farm is part of its plan to achieve that vision,&#8221; says Council.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Live generation data from the solar farm <a href=\"https:\/\/solarfarm.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">can be viewed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the facility, there are more than 40,000 small-scale <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/installers\/sunshinecoast\/\">solar power systems in the Sunshine Coast<\/a> region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queensland&#8217;s Sunshine Coast Solar farm has picked up another award, this time at the Australian Regional Development Conference Awards 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":24397,"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-24396","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 v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>More Accolades For Sunshine Coast Solar Farm - SolarQuotes Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Queensland&#039;s Sunshine Coast Solar farm has picked up another award, this time at the Australian Regional Development Conference Awards 2018.\" \/>\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\/sunshine-coast-solar-award-mb0754\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"More Accolades For Sunshine Coast Solar Farm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Queensland&#039;s Sunshine Coast Solar farm has picked up another award, this time at the Australian Regional Development Conference Awards 2018.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/sunshine-coast-solar-award-mb0754\/\" \/>\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=\"2018-09-19T21:03:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-07-02T05:48:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/sunshine-coast-solar-farm.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\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\/sunshine-coast-solar-award-mb0754\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/sunshine-coast-solar-award-mb0754\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"More Accolades For Sunshine Coast Solar Farm\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-09-19T21:03:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-07-02T05:48:56+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/sunshine-coast-solar-award-mb0754\/\"},\"wordCount\":399,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/sunshine-coast-solar-award-mb0754\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/sunshine-coast-solar-farm.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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