{"id":28200,"date":"2019-02-25T06:40:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T20:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=28200"},"modified":"2019-02-25T06:40:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T20:10:33","slug":"woolworths-solar-adelaide-mb0951","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/woolworths-solar-adelaide-mb0951\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Panels For Woolworths&#8217; Adelaide Regional Distribution Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28201\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/woolworths-adelaide-solar.jpg\" alt=\"Woolworths - solar energy\" width=\"906\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/woolworths-adelaide-solar.jpg 906w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/woolworths-adelaide-solar-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/woolworths-adelaide-solar-768x415.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 906px) 100vw, 906px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Woolworths&#8217; expansion of its Adelaide Regional Distribution Centre (ARDC) at Gepps Cross will include the installation of a commercial-scale solar power system.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Last week, construction work on the $57 million expansion project kicked off. Approximately 140 local jobs will be created over the 14- month build and once completed the facility will cover 94,000 square metres, which the company says is more than four times the size of Adelaide Oval.<\/p>\n<p>Helping to power the centre will be 3,500 solar panels installed across the rooftop. Woolworths says the installation will be &#8220;1.6MVa&#8221;. This is a rather odd way of expressing a system&#8217;s specifications, which are usually noted in terms of MW capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Woolworths <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woolworthsgroup.com.au\/page\/media\/Press_Releases\/woolworths-starts-work-on-57-million-expansion-solar-installation-at-adelaide-regional-distribution-centre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">says<\/a> this will be the largest solar power system in its Australian network. The $2.5 million installation will generate equivalent to around twenty per cent of the centre\u2019s electricity requirements according to the company.<\/p>\n<p>In other solar-related news from Woolworths, it seems it won&#8217;t be long before the company&#8217;s distribution centre in Dandenong South in Melbourne will be fully operational. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/woolworths-commercial-solar-mb0559\/\">That facility<\/a> also has a significant rooftop PV installation.<\/p>\n<p>Late last year, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woolworthsgroup.com.au\/page\/media\/Latest_News\/woolworths-rolls-out-solar-first-in-young-car-park\/\">Woolworths store in Young<\/a> became the first in Australia with solar panels installed on car park shading structures. The 366 panels will generate more than 185,000 kilowatt hours of clean electricity each year.<\/p>\n<p>According to Woolworths Group&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woolworthsgroup.com.au\/icms_docs\/195398_2018-sustainability-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2018 Sustainability Report<\/a>, solar power systems had been installed on 62 stores and two distribution centres at the point of the report&#8217;s release, with a total capacity of approximately 7MW. The company was also trialing a Tesla battery system at its Erskine Park Liquor Distribution Centre.<\/p>\n<h2>320MW Of Solar Capacity Potential<\/h2>\n<p>Woolworths Group certainly has no shortage of rooftop space for more solar. According to a 2015 <a href=\"https:\/\/reneweconomy.com.au\/woolworths-builds-solar-portfolio-to-1-2mw-well-short-of-320mw-mooted-in-2010-2010\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RenewEconomy article<\/a>, a 2010 submission from Woolworths to the Victorian Government suggested its rooftop space suitable for installing PV could host 320MW of capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Solar energy is helping Woolworths Group in reducing its carbon emissions. The company had set a target of reducing emissions across its operations to 10 per cent below 2015 levels by 2020, but according to the 2018 Sustainability Report, it had achieved a 13 percent reduction by that point.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s great to see companies increasingly putting their commercial rooftop real estate to good use through harvesting the energy of the sun. It not only makes a valuable contribution to reducing emissions and alleviating pressure on the mains grid, but can also have a very positive impact on a business&#8217;s bottom line through slashing mains-supplied electricity costs.<\/p>\n<p>With the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/commercial-solar-guide.html\">cost of commercial solar<\/a> continuing to drop and payback times decreasing, we can expect to see the number of PV arrays appearing on commercial rooftops across Australia continuing to accelerate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woolworths&#8217; expansion of its Adelaide Regional Distribution Centre (ARDC) at Gepps Cross will include the installation of a commercial-scale solar power system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":28201,"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-28200","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>Solar Panels For Woolworths&#039; 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An article published on Business Insider yesterday states Woolworths is preparing to take the wraps off a new $215 million fully automated distribution centre in Dandenong South in Melbourne. 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