{"id":27230,"date":"2019-01-18T05:13:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T18:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=27230"},"modified":"2019-01-18T17:25:31","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T06:55:31","slug":"melbourne-renewable-energy-mb0903","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/melbourne-renewable-energy-mb0903\/","title":{"rendered":"City Of Melbourne (Council) Now 100% Renewable Electricity Powered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/melbourne-renewable-energy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27231\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/melbourne-renewable-energy.jpg\" alt=\"City Of Melbourne - Renewable Energy\" width=\"800\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/melbourne-renewable-energy.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/melbourne-renewable-energy-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/melbourne-renewable-energy-768x416.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The City Of Melbourne says it is the first Australian capital city council powered by 100 per cent renewable electricity.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Just to clarify, and I should have done so when originally publishing &#8211; the 100% claim is in relation to electricity supply for council buildings and services. The council is purchasing renewable electricity equivalent to its annual consumption.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Melbourne council area is comprised of the city centre and a number of inner-city suburbs, including Carlton, Flemington, Prahran, South Yarra and Southbank.<\/p>\n<p>The shift to 100% renewables for electricity supply was made possible by a deal struck by Council and thirteen other organisations\u00a0 that combined their purchasing power to support the construction of Pacific Hydro&#8217;s 80 MW Crowlands Wind Farm, which is being built 25km north-east of Ararat in south-west Victoria &#8211; approximately 205km west of Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>The Melbourne Renewable Energy Project (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.melbourne.vic.gov.au\/business\/sustainable-business\/mrep\/Pages\/melbourne-renewable-energy-project.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MREP<\/a>), as the collective is known, committed to purchase 88 GWh of electricity per year from the wind energy facility under a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA).<\/p>\n<p>25 of the 39 Senvion MM92 2.05MW turbines at the facility are now up and running.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Making the move to 100 per cent renewable energy is the ultimate New Year\u2019s resolution,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.melbourne.vic.gov.au\/news-and-media\/pages\/council-now-powered-by-100-per-cent-renewable-energy.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Deputy Lord Mayor\u00a0 Arron Wood. &#8220;Every light on our streets, every treadmill in our gyms and every barbecue in our parks is now powered by renewable energy.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacifichydro.com.au\/english\/projects\/construction\/crowlands-wind-farm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crowlands<\/a> is a project with a very long history &#8211; initial consultation with the local community began in 2004; well before Australia&#8217;s renewable energy revolution started kicking into gear.<\/p>\n<p>One of the sweeteners Pacific Hydro is providing as part of the project to the local Crowlands community is the installation of a rooftop solar power and battery storage system for the Crowlands town hall.<\/p>\n<h2>Solar Energy In Melbourne&#8217;s CBD<\/h2>\n<p>While the topic of the solar energy, an analysis released last year by the Australian PV Institute (APVI)\u00a0 indicated the CBD area of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/installers\/melbourne\/\">Melbourne<\/a> could support 461MW of solar panels on the rooftops of its buildings. This capacity would generate an estimated 548 gigawatt-hours of electricity each year; enough to supply 11% of the entire CBD\u2019s annual electricity consumption.<\/p>\n<p>The potential rooftop solar power capacity of other state capital city CBDs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/adelaide-cbd-solar-mb0541\/\">can be viewed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trivia:<\/strong> In Melbourne CBD&#8217;s postcode (3000), there are just 42 small scale (&lt;100kW) solar power systems installed, with a collective capacity of 668kW. Elsewhere within the Council&#8217;s borders where there is more stand-alone, semi-detached, townhouse and terrace housing, solar power has a greater presence. For example, in the suburbs of Flemington and Kensington (postcode 3031),\u00a0 472 systems are installed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City Of Melbourne says it is the first Australian capital city council powered by 100 per cent renewable electricity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":27231,"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-27230","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 Melbourne (Council) Now 100% Renewable Electricity Powered<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The City Of Melbourne says it is the first Australian capital city council powered by 100 per cent renewable electricity.\" \/>\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\/melbourne-renewable-energy-mb0903\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"City Of Melbourne (Council) Now 100% Renewable Electricity Powered\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The City Of Melbourne says it is the first Australian capital city council powered by 100 per cent renewable electricity.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/melbourne-renewable-energy-mb0903\/\" \/>\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=\"2019-01-17T18:43:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-01-18T06:55:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/melbourne-renewable-energy.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"433\" \/>\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\/melbourne-renewable-energy-mb0903\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/melbourne-renewable-energy-mb0903\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"City Of Melbourne (Council) Now 100% Renewable Electricity Powered\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-01-17T18:43:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-01-18T06:55:31+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/melbourne-renewable-energy-mb0903\/\"},\"wordCount\":435,\"commentCount\":14,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/melbourne-renewable-energy-mb0903\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/melbourne-renewable-energy.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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