{"id":33916,"date":"2019-10-03T08:34:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T22:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=33916"},"modified":"2019-10-03T08:34:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T22:04:47","slug":"hobsons-bay-carbon-neutral-mb1238","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/hobsons-bay-carbon-neutral-mb1238\/","title":{"rendered":"Hobsons Bay Council Headed For Carbon Neutrality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_33917\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33917\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33917\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/hobsons-bay-carbon-neutral.jpg\" alt=\"Hobsons Bay carbon neutrality\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/hobsons-bay-carbon-neutral.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/hobsons-bay-carbon-neutral-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/hobsons-bay-carbon-neutral-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/hobsons-bay-carbon-neutral-1024x538.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-33917\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=4738300\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Shadbolt<\/a>, CC BY 2.5<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Victoria&#8217;s Hobsons Bay City Council appears confident it will reach its goal of attaining &#8220;carbon neutrality&#8221; in terms of its own operations in 2020.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The City of Hobsons Bay is a local government area in Melbourne covering 65 km\u00b2 that incorporates suburbs including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/location\/altona-3018-vic\/\">Altona<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/location\/williamstown-3016-vic\/\">Williamstown<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/location\/newport-3015-vic\/\">Newport<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2008, Council developed a Greenhouse Action Plan (GAP) as a response to community concerns about climate change. That plan committed to reducing corporate emissions from Council\u2019s own operations to net zero by 2020 (Scope 1 and 2 emissions) and also helping residents reduce the municipality\u2019s emissions to net zero by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week Council outlined some of the actions it has been taking to reach the first target:<\/p>\n<h2>Solar Power<\/h2>\n<p>Council has installed solar panels on four of its buildings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Altona Meadows Library and Learning Centre &#8211; 55kW<\/li>\n<li>Altona North Community Library &#8211; 50kW<\/li>\n<li>Laverton Hub &#8211; 86kW<\/li>\n<li>Williamstown Library &#8211; 52kW<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Collectively these solar power systems will avoid an estimated 393 tonnes of carbon emissions a year.<\/p>\n<h2>Electric Vehicles And Charger<\/h2>\n<p>In August this year, Council\u2019s new electric vehicle fleet was commissioned into service. It includes three Nissan Leafs, one Renault Zoe and one Renault Kangoo Z.E. van. A 50kW DC fast-charging station at the Altona Civic Centre has also been installed, which will be free for the community to use for a trial period of one year. How the electricity consumed by the charging station is currently sourced or offset isn&#8217;t clear.<\/p>\n<h2>Renewables PPA<\/h2>\n<p>Council recently signed on to the Local Government Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), an initiative whereby Victorian Councils can procure low cost renewable energy from 2020\/21.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cCoupled with our energy savings this agreement will see us hit our zero net emissions targets,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hobsonsbay.vic.gov.au\/News-Media\/2019\/October\/Council-charges-towards-going-carbon-neutral\">said<\/a> Mayor of Hobsons Bay, Councillor Jonathon Marsden.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Other actions taken include building retrofits, upgrading street lighting to LED and it appears the purchase of offsets may also be involved to reach the target.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming the target for its own operations is attained, Council won&#8217;t have much time to rest on its laurels &#8211; reducing the emissions of the overall municipality (population ~93,000) to net zero by 2030 will prove a much bigger challenge.<\/p>\n<p>On the solar power side of things, APVI data current as at June <a href=\"https:\/\/pv-map.apvi.org.au\/historical#11\/-37.8564\/144.8609\">indicates<\/a> approximately 13.5% of dwellings in the LGA have solar panels installed. 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