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\"Solar<\/p>\n

Victoria’s Campaspe Shire Council has announced it will be installing a solar and battery storage system at Echuca Stadium.<\/p>\n

The solar aspect will be 50kW and the battery system 36kWh capacity – a bit under the equivalent of three Tesla Powerwall 2’s.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe solar and battery system is expected to have a return on the investment after five years and three months and will continue to reduce the stadium\u2019s operating costs into the future,” said<\/a> Mayor Cr Adrian Weston.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s a pretty good simple payback period for solar + storage if correct; but it will be the PV doing the heavy lifting – a solar-only installation would have provided a significantly faster payback<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But the battery will have an important task – supporting the stadium as one of Echuca\u2019s emergency relief centres. In the event of a mains grid blackout, the centre will be able to continue to operate overnight on basic services (lights and refrigeration). It’s assumed the system will also offer “level 3” battery backup<\/a>; i.e. that the panels will be able to charge the battery system when the grid is down.<\/p>\n

A Switch From Solar-Only<\/h2>\n

According to minutes<\/a> of a meeting held on Tuesday, Council was originally looking at a 60kW solar-only system, but it was found existing electrical infrastructure at the site would need upgrading to take advantage of the system’s export capability. This would have been at an additional cost of $21,000 and extend payback from 4 years to 6 years. But even with the upgrade, there was no guarantee Distributed Network Service Provider (DNSP<\/a>) Powercor would accept the grid connection application.<\/p>\n

The solar + battery option was chosen instead, but without the infrastructure upgrade it also means the system will limited to 5kW maximum export.<\/p>\n

The $152,000 required for the project ($90k solar, $62k battery) will be in part funded by savings gained under the Watts Working Better Project, an energy efficient street light retrofit program.<\/p>\n

Another Campaspe Shire Council solar installation is a 100kW system<\/a> at Echuca Regional Library, which commenced operations last year. A good quality solar power system in Echuca<\/a> of that capacity can generate approximately 156,500 kilowatt-hours of electricity a year.<\/p>\n

Council is also considering other projects, with three sites identified to potentially have solar installed in the future – Echuca War Memorial Aquatic Centre, Campaspe Children\u2019s Centre and Port of Echuca Discovery Centre.<\/p>\n

As for other non-Council upcoming significant projects in the LGA, there’s a proposed development in Koyuga involving the construction of a 4.875MW “micro solar farm” facility (23,040 solar panels). Keeping the system below 5MW avoids some regulatory red tape. Should that project go ahead in a timely fashion, it will be the largest solar energy facility in the Shire.<\/p>\n

While Campaspe Shire Council’s Echuca stadium project will be the first emergency relief centre in regional Victoria able to operate off-grid with a solar and battery system, another project was officially launched earlier this week. Much closer to Melbourne in the Shire of Nillumbik, a 100kW solar\/ 100kWh battery<\/a> system at Diamond Creek’s stadium is now operational.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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