{"id":24499,"date":"2018-09-25T06:25:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T19:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=24499"},"modified":"2018-09-26T09:46:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T23:16:07","slug":"tamworth-council-solar-mb0758","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/tamworth-council-solar-mb0758\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamworth Regional Council To Vote On Solar Panel Rollout Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New South Wales’ Tamworth Regional Council is set to vote on whether to proceed with the installation of solar power systems at a dozen Council-owned sites.<\/p>\n

Tamworth<\/a>‘s postcode is home to an estimated 3,570 small scale solar power systems under 100kW capacity1<\/a><\/sup> (Clean Energy Regulator figures), representing 16.8MW of capacity. While approximately 17% of dwellings in the Tamworth region have solar panels installed according to Council, less than 1% of 300 council owned sites requiring electricity have solar PV (so just one or two). A search on “solar” on the TRC web site returns one result – and that’s in relation to solar radiation.<\/p>\n

After tonight, it may not be long before this changes.<\/p>\n

Council has some very good motivation for going solar aside from the carbon reduction aspect. Based on current electricity market prices, it is expecting an increase in electricity costs of at least 30% under a new contract for its large sites in 2019.<\/p>\n

Most of the proposed PV projects are considered small-scale, with the exception of a system at Westdale Wastewater Treatment Plant. Here’s the list of various sites and capacities:<\/p>\n