{"id":25091,"date":"2018-10-16T06:50:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T20:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=25091"},"modified":"2018-10-16T06:50:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T20:20:32","slug":"rockingham-power-partnership-mb0785","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/rockingham-power-partnership-mb0785\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Rockingham Joins Climate Council\u2019s Cities Power Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25092\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25092\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25092\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/solar-panels-rockingham.jpg\" alt=\"Solar panels - City of Rockingham\" width=\"800\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/solar-panels-rockingham.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/solar-panels-rockingham-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/solar-panels-rockingham-768x414.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25092\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: City of Rockingham<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Western Australia&#8217;s City of Rockingham last week joined dozens of other councils across Australia reaffirming their commitment to a sustainable energy future.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The City of Rockingham is a local government area in the far southern suburbs of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/installers\/perth\/\"> Perth<\/a>. Approximately 125,000 people live within its boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>Under the <a href=\"https:\/\/citiespowerpartnership.org.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cities Power Partnership<\/a>, Council will commit to actions relating to best practice energy efficiency and deliver these actions in a selected time frame.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Rockingham is also a signatory to Western Australia\u2019s Local Government Association Climate Change Declaration, which it signed in 2011. Since that time, Council has installed solar panels on 74 of its buildings and carried out other actions including solar lighting in parks and upgrading other lighting to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/energy-efficiency\/led-lights\/\">LED<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;With 37km of pristine coastline, a growing population and strong environmental values, the City is always looking at ways to develop its understanding of sustainability and joining the Cities Power Partnership gives us a fantastic opportunity do to just that,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/rockingham.wa.gov.au\/News\/City-Partners-to-Tackle-Climate-Change.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Mayor Barry Sammels.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Among its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/solar101.html\">solar power<\/a> installations is a roof-mounted 340kW system at <a href=\"http:\/\/rockingham.wa.gov.au\/Our-city\/Major-projects-and-developments\/Projects-Map\/Aqua-Jetty-Solar-PV-System\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aqua Jetty<\/a>, consisting of 988 solar panels. Due to be fully operational this month, the system will generate an estimated 427 MWh of electricity per year.<\/p>\n<p>The City&#8217;s residents and businesses have also been striking a blow towards reducing emissions (and their power bills) through the installation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/\">solar panels<\/a>. According to recent Clean Energy Regulator data, there are approximately 18,870 small-scale solar power systems in the City of Rockingham area. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/installers\/rockingham\/\">Rockingham<\/a> itself, around 3,389 systems are installed.<\/p>\n<p>It was a busy week for the Cities Power Partnership &#8211; among other councils announced as new members were <a href=\"https:\/\/citiespowerpartnership.org.au\/2018\/10\/10\/local-governments-lead-climate-change-charge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hepburn Shire<\/a> (Victoria), <a href=\"https:\/\/citiespowerpartnership.org.au\/2018\/10\/11\/northam-commits-to-tackle-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shire of Northam<\/a> (Western Australia) and <a href=\"https:\/\/citiespowerpartnership.org.au\/2018\/10\/11\/ballarat-a-green-city\/\">City of Ballarat<\/a> (Victoria).<\/p>\n<h2>Local Governments Leading The Renewables Charge<\/h2>\n<p>Last week the Climate Council also released a report indicating local councils were well ahead of the Federal Government on policies to tackle climate change, committing to hundreds of projects designed to slash greenhouse gas emissions within their areas.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDespite the latest data showing that Australia\u2019s emissions are soaring, our towns and cities are quietly shifting to a renewable future,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/citiespowerpartnership.org.au\/2018\/10\/09\/local-councils-outstrip-federal-climate-action\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Chief Climate Councillor Professor Tim Flannery. &#8221; A huge surge of local government renewable energy projects are underway \u2013 and with over 100 councils joining the Cities Power Partnership, we\u2019ll see many more.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The report: Tackling Climate Change Together: Local Governments Lead the Charge can be <a href=\"https:\/\/citiespowerpartnership.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CPP-Pledge-Report_LR.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">downloaded here<\/a> (PDF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western Australia&#8217;s City of Rockingham last week joined dozens of other councils across Australia reaffirming their commitment to a sustainable energy future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":25092,"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-25091","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>City of Rockingham Joins Climate Council\u2019s Cities Power Partnership<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"WA&#039;s City of Rockingham last week joined dozens of other councils across Australia reaffirming their commitment to a sustainable energy future.\" \/>\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\/rockingham-power-partnership-mb0785\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"City of Rockingham Joins Climate Council\u2019s Cities Power Partnership\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"WA&#039;s City of Rockingham last week joined dozens of other councils across Australia reaffirming their commitment to a sustainable energy future.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/rockingham-power-partnership-mb0785\/\" \/>\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=\"2018-10-15T20:20:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/solar-panels-rockingham.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"431\" \/>\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\/rockingham-power-partnership-mb0785\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/rockingham-power-partnership-mb0785\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"City of Rockingham Joins Climate Council\u2019s Cities Power Partnership\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-10-15T20:20:32+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/rockingham-power-partnership-mb0785\/\"},\"wordCount\":419,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/rockingham-power-partnership-mb0785\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/solar-panels-rockingham.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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