{"id":25307,"date":"2018-10-25T07:08:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T20:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=25307"},"modified":"2018-10-25T07:08:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T20:38:35","slug":"victoria-solar-schools-mb0799","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/victoria-solar-schools-mb0799\/","title":{"rendered":"Victorian Liberals Pledge Solar And Storage For State Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25308\" style=\"width: 820px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25308\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25308\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/solar-schools-victoria.jpg\" alt=\"Solar and batteries for Victorian state schools\" width=\"810\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/solar-schools-victoria.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/solar-schools-victoria-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/solar-schools-victoria-768x414.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25308\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/solar-power-solar-panels-862602\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">schropferoval<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Liberal Victoria has committed to providing all eligible Victorian public schools with solar panels and battery storage if it wins the November election.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Under a Liberal Nationals Government, all Victorian state schools without solar (approximately 700) will be eligible to receive solar power and battery systems as well as grants of $10,000 to assist with costs associated with implementation. Additionally, each of these installations will be Virtual Power Plant (VPP) ready.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A Liberal Nationals Government will help public schools get back in control of sky rocketing electricity costs by providing them with solar panels and batteries,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/vic.liberal.org.au\/News\/2018-10-24\/liberal-nationals-to-power-every-victorian-school-with-solar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Leader of the Opposition, Matthew Guy. &#8220;If we don\u2019t take back control now it will mean schools will spend even more on electricity and less on students and teachers.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No mention was made of how large the installations would be, but Mr Guy says the systems could cut schools&#8217; electricity costs by around a third. It&#8217;s intended that all systems will be installed by 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Shadow Minister for Renewables David Southwick said renewable energy is the future, but &#8220;only a Liberal Nationals Government will do renewables right&#8221;, an interesting comment given the Andrews Labor Government has been doing pretty well on the renewables front during its time in power.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Southwick also called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/victoria-solar-rebate-application-mb0747\/\">Victoria&#8217;s solar rebate<\/a> a &#8220;winners-and-losers&#8221; initiative, but assuming Labor is returned to office there will eventually be 650,000 winners &#8211; and that&#8217;s households, not just individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Still, more solar for schools is a great thing. With battery storage added and being VPP enabled, these installations could also help manage peak demand and provide other grid services.<\/p>\n<p>Environment Victoria welcomed the news, but says the Liberals still need to lift their game on renewables.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It is pleasing to see the Victorian Liberals finally joining the race to build more renewables, after having spent much of this term of Parliament vowing to scrap the Victorian Renewable Energy Target,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/environmentvictoria.org.au\/2018\/10\/24\/victorian-liberals-take-first-step-in-the-renewable-energy-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> said<\/a> Environment Victoria Campaigns Manager Dr Nicholas Aberle. \u201cThe next step for the Liberal party is to release a plan for repowering the entire state, not just state schools, with clean energy. Households and businesses deserve to benefit from renewable energy as well.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/victoria-renewable-energy-target-mb0259\/\">Victoria&#8217;s Renewable Energy Target<\/a> (VRET) became law just over a year ago. It calls for 25 per cent renewables by 2020 and 40 per cent by 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Many Victorian schools already have solar panels on their rooftops thanks to the National Schools Solar program (NSSP), which ended in June 2013. While the NSSP may be long-gone, schools are eligible for Australia\u2019s major <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/rebate\/\">solar subsidy<\/a>, which can slash the up-front cost of installing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/commercial-solar-guide.html\">commercial solar system<\/a> by many thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The current Victorian government has also been providing assistance to selected schools in installing solar power through its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/victoria-schools-solar-energy-mb0526\/\">Greener Government School Buildings<\/a> pilot program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberal Victoria has committed to providing all eligible Victorian public schools with solar panels and battery storage if it wins the November election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":25308,"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-25307","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>Victorian Liberals Pledge Solar And Storage For State Schools<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Liberal Victoria has committed to providing all eligible Victorian public schools with solar panels and battery storage if it wins the November election.\" \/>\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\/victoria-solar-schools-mb0799\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Victorian Liberals Pledge Solar And Storage For State Schools\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Liberal Victoria has committed to providing all eligible Victorian public schools with solar panels and battery storage if it wins the November election.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/victoria-solar-schools-mb0799\/\" \/>\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=\"2018-10-24T20:38:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/solar-schools-victoria.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"810\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"437\" \/>\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\/victoria-solar-schools-mb0799\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/victoria-solar-schools-mb0799\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"Victorian Liberals Pledge Solar And Storage For State Schools\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-10-24T20:38:35+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/victoria-solar-schools-mb0799\/\"},\"wordCount\":479,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/victoria-solar-schools-mb0799\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/solar-schools-victoria.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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