{"id":32880,"date":"2019-08-22T08:48:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T22:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=32880"},"modified":"2019-09-20T17:27:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T06:57:46","slug":"city-bayswater-renewables-mb1184","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/city-bayswater-renewables-mb1184\/","title":{"rendered":"City Of Bayswater (Council) Shooting For 100% Renewables By 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32881\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/bayswater-renewable-energy.jpg\" alt=\"City of Bayswater - Renewable Energy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/bayswater-renewable-energy.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/bayswater-renewable-energy-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/bayswater-renewable-energy-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/bayswater-renewable-energy-1024x538.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Western Australia&#8217;s City Of Bayswater has voted to support a draft Renewable Energy and Emission Reduction Position and Action Statement (PAAS).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the PAAS was to propose a staged approach to achieve:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a corporate renewable energy target of 100% by 2030.<\/li>\n<li>a corporate greenhouse gas emissions reduction target of 100% by 2040.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The envisioned stages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stage 1 will involve development of the City\u2019s emission profile and adoption of interim emission reduction and renewable energy targets.<\/li>\n<li>Stage 2 will see the preparation of an Emissions Reduction and Renewable Energy (ERRE) plan, along with an initial business case for options.<\/li>\n<li>Stage 3 involves implementation, monitoring and reporting on actions undertaken by the City.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Aside from emissions reduction, there&#8217;s generally a strong financial case for making a switch to renewables. Currently, Council spends about $4 million a year on energy; a figure that also includes non-electricity related energy costs.<\/p>\n<h2>A Role For Solar Power<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/commercial-solar-guide.html\">Commercial solar<\/a> installations could play a significant role in achieving the 100% renewable energy target. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bayswater.wa.gov.au\/city-and-council\/council\/council-meetings\/agendas-and-minutes\/2019\/august\/ordinary-council-meeting-20-august-2019-agenda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The agenda<\/a> for the council meeting states:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It should be noted that the use of solar panels is already supported with a business case of a return on investment between 3 to 5 years and an expected lifecycle of 20-25 years.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The agenda also notes 60kW of solar panel capacity is already funded for 2019\/20.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.communitynews.com.au\/eastern-reporter\/news\/city-makes-stance-on-climate-change\/\">the Eastern Reporter<\/a>, the vote on the draft PAAS was carried 9-2, with one councillor opposing the motion based on concerns the public hadn&#8217;t been consulted, and another stating the Federal Government should leading the change.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Bayswater is also considering becoming a member of the Climate Council\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/citiespowerpartnership.org.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cities Power Partnership<\/a>. The initiative, which costs councils nothing to join, is a national program bringing together Australian towns and cities making the switch to clean energy. <span class=\"s1\">Member councils of the partnership pledge to take five key actions across renewable energy, efficiency, transport and collaboration. More than 100 councils across Australia have signed on to the Partnership.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The City of Bayswater LGA is situated approximately 7 kilometres northeast of Perth&#8217;s CBD. Covering 34.6 square kilometres, the City had a population of 65,050 as at Census 2016. Among its suburbs are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/location\/bayswater-6053-wa\/\">Bayswater<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/location\/bedford-6052-wa\/\">Bedford<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/location\/maylands-6051-wa\/\">Maylands<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/location\/morley-6062-wa\/\">Morley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">City of Bayswater ratepayers are already well and truly on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/solar101.html\">solar power<\/a> bandwagon. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/pv-map.apvi.org.au\/historical#12\/-31.9347\/115.8721\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">APVI<\/a>, approximately 21% of dwellings in the LGA had solar panels installed at June 2019. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western Australia&#8217;s City Of Bayswater has voted to support a draft Renewable Energy and Emission Reduction Position and Action Statement (PAAS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":32881,"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-32880","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 Bayswater (Council) Shooting For 100% Renewables By 2030<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Western Australia&#039;s City Of Bayswater has voted to support a draft Renewable Energy and Emission Reduction Position and Action Statement (PAAS).\" \/>\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\/city-bayswater-renewables-mb1184\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"City Of Bayswater (Council) Shooting For 100% Renewables By 2030\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Western Australia&#039;s City Of Bayswater has voted to support a draft Renewable Energy and Emission Reduction Position and Action Statement (PAAS).\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/city-bayswater-renewables-mb1184\/\" \/>\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=\"2019-08-21T22:18:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-09-20T06:57:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/bayswater-renewable-energy.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\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\/city-bayswater-renewables-mb1184\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/city-bayswater-renewables-mb1184\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"City Of Bayswater (Council) Shooting For 100% Renewables By 2030\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-08-21T22:18:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-09-20T06:57:46+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/city-bayswater-renewables-mb1184\/\"},\"wordCount\":396,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/city-bayswater-renewables-mb1184\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/bayswater-renewable-energy.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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