{"id":28517,"date":"2019-03-08T05:15:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T18:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=28517"},"modified":"2019-03-08T05:15:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T18:45:42","slug":"noosa-council-solar-mb0967","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/noosa-council-solar-mb0967\/","title":{"rendered":"Noosa Council To Crank Up Its Solar Capacity (Again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_28518\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28518\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28518\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/noosa-council-solar.jpg\" alt=\"Noosa Council - solar power\" width=\"800\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/noosa-council-solar.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/noosa-council-solar-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/noosa-council-solar-768x442.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-28518\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/photos\/solar-power-solar-panels-862602\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">schropferoval<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>In another step towards its goal of carbon neutrality by 2026, Noosa Council is installing more solar power &#8211; this time expanding the installation on its Tewantin Administration Building.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The building&#8217;s roof has seen better days and will be replaced before a 90kW solar power system consisting of 269 panels is installed. Here&#8217;s the building as it looked in late 2017, showing the 40 existing panels on the northern roof:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28519\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28519\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/noosa-tewantin-solar.jpg\" alt=\"Noosa Council Tewantin building\" width=\"800\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/noosa-tewantin-solar.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/noosa-tewantin-solar-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/noosa-tewantin-solar-768x468.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-28519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: Google Earth<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s expected the new solar installation will reduce the building&#8217;s grid electricity consumption by 36% and save Council (and ratepayers) around $17,000 a year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe work means that we won\u2019t have to use buckets to catch leaks during heavy rain events,&#8221; said Mayor Tony Wellington. \u201cThe additional benefit is the ability to slash our power costs by installing solar panels,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noosa.qld.gov.au\/media-releases\/-\/asset_publisher\/Iif6ygeQkN00\/content\/new-roof-delivers-solar-benefits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Mayor Tony Wellington<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noosa Council already has more than a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/noosa-solar-power-mb0850\/\">couple of hundred kilowatts of solar capacity<\/a> installed across seven of its buildings.<\/p>\n<h2>Council Reaping Solar Rewards<\/h2>\n<p>Council recently reported that a 50KW system installed at the Noosaville depot has slashed the site\u2019s power bills by 55% and another 50KW installation at The J Depot has resulted in the site\u2019s mains grid power use decreasing by 34%. Helping things along with the Council&#8217;s energy bill reduction exercises has been the installation of more than 300 LED lights across its facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Another facility that will soon get a new rooftop and more solar energy capacity is the Noosa Aquatic Centre, which currently has a 26kW system.<\/p>\n<p>Carbon neutrality by 2026 isn&#8217;t just a goal for Council &#8211; it&#8217;s an aim across the entire community through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZeroEmissionsNoosa\/\">Zero Emissions Noosa<\/a> (ZEN) initiative.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe Noosa community, with the Zero Emissions Noosa initiative, is embracing renewable energy and other carbon reduction strategies in a community effort to reduce the Shire\u2019s emissions, and Council is pleased to lead by example,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noosa.qld.gov.au\/media-releases\/-\/asset_publisher\/Iif6ygeQkN00\/content\/solar-panels-slash-council-s-grid-power-use\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Mayor Wellington.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>ZEN has delivered several community workshops, an expo for electric vehicles and is currently tackling the challenges associated with enabling renters to reap the benefits of solar power. I guess they&#8217;ll be a bit miffed that no Noosa localities are included the Queensland Government&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/qld-solar-rentals-rebate-mb0963\/\">Solar For Rentals<\/a> trial. That initiative is offering up to 1,000 rental property owners in Bundaberg, Gladstone and Townsville rebates of up to $3,500 for installing solar panels &#8211; on top of the national subsidy (aka the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/rebate\/\">solar rebate<\/a>&#8220;).<\/p>\n<p>As at September last year, an there were an estimated 8,903 small scale (&lt;100kW) solar installations in Noosa Shire (Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/pv-map.apvi.org.au\/historical#8\/-26.667\/152.792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Australian Photovoltaic Institute<\/a>). Of those, 228 installations were more than 10kW capacity, suggesting that as well as residential PV, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/commercial-solar-guide.html\">commercial solar<\/a> is also popular in the shire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In another step towards its goal of carbon neutrality by 2026, Noosa Council is installing more solar power &#8211; this time expanding the installation on its Tewantin Administration Building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":28518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28517","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 v28.5 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Noosa Council To Crank Up Its Solar Capacity (Again) - SolarQuotes Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In another step towards its goal of carbon neutrality by 2026, Noosa Council is installing more solar power - this time expanding an existing installation.\" \/>\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\/noosa-council-solar-mb0967\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Noosa Council To Crank Up Its Solar Capacity (Again)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In another step towards its goal of carbon neutrality by 2026, Noosa Council is installing more solar power - this time expanding an existing installation.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/noosa-council-solar-mb0967\/\" \/>\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=\"2019-03-07T18:45:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/noosa-council-solar.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"460\" \/>\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\\\/noosa-council-solar-mb0967\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/noosa-council-solar-mb0967\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"Noosa Council To Crank Up Its Solar Capacity (Again)\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-03-07T18:45:42+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/noosa-council-solar-mb0967\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":467,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/noosa-council-solar-mb0967\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/03\\\/noosa-council-solar.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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