{"id":35228,"date":"2019-11-26T06:54:19","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T20:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=35228"},"modified":"2019-11-26T06:54:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T20:24:19","slug":"whitehorse-energy-efficiency-mb1306","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/whitehorse-energy-efficiency-mb1306\/","title":{"rendered":"More Solar Energy On The Cards For Victoria&#8217;s Whitehorse City Council\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35229\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/whitehorse-solar-energy.jpg\" alt=\"Whitehorse City Council - solar energy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/whitehorse-solar-energy.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/whitehorse-solar-energy-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/whitehorse-solar-energy-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/whitehorse-solar-energy-1024x538.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Whitehorse City Council is implementing a $2 million energy performance contract (EPC) across eight of its sites in an effort to improve energy efficiency.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Whitehorse City Council local government area is a major commercial and residential municipality situated around 15 km from Melbourne&#8217;s CBD. The area is home to more than 168,000 people and among its suburbs are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/location\/surrey-hills-3127-vic\/\">Surrey Hills<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/location\/box-hill-3128-vic\/\">Box Hill<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/location\/nunawading-3131-vic\/\">Nunawading<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The EPC upgrades, which may include installation of solar panels, LED lighting upgrades or upgrades to heating and cooling equipment, are to occur at the following centres.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aqualink Box Hill<\/li>\n<li>Sportlink<\/li>\n<li>Box Hill Town Hall<\/li>\n<li>Box Hill Community Arts Centre<\/li>\n<li>Eley Park Community Centre<\/li>\n<li>Whitehorse Civic Centre<\/li>\n<li>Whitehorse Operations Centre<\/li>\n<li>Whitehorse Recycling and Waste Centre.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The project will enable council to save an estimated $277,966 on electricity costs annually and result in emissions reduction of 1,343 tonnes\u00a0 each year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe energy efficiency measures in this EPC will have an overall financial payback period of less than 7 years, after which Council would maintain the benefit of ongoing operational cost savings due mainly to lower energy consumption,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehorse.vic.gov.au\/news-and-media\/energy-savings-council\">said<\/a> Whitehorse Mayor, Councillor Sharon Ellis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to Council, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eec.org.au\/uploads\/images\/NEEC\/Information%20Tools%20and%20Resources\/Best%20Practice%20guide%20to%20EPC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">energy performance contracts<\/a> are increasingly being utilised in government and the private sector to achieve fixed price guaranteed outcomes, with the savings verified using an internationally approved measurement and verification protocol.<\/p>\n<h2>Council&#8217;s Carbon Neutral Target<\/h2>\n<p>In March last year, Whitehorse City Council committed to becoming carbon neutral by 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Some of its efforts towards emissions reductions to date include the installation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/solar101.html\">solar power<\/a> systems on 32 of its buildings with a collective capacity of more than 230kW. Council has also switched over more than 8,000 street lights to LED technology since 2013, which has reduced street light electricity use by around 64% and slashed related emissions by over 5,386.5 tonnes per year.<\/p>\n<p>Council also has a number of electric vehicles in its fleet. Recently added was a fully electric Renault Kangoo van that will be used for cleaning services throughout the municipality.<\/p>\n<p>Council\u2019s current mains electricity supply contract involves only non-renewable energy and expires on June 30 next year. In July this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/whitehorse.infocouncil.biz\/Open\/2019\/07\/CO_20190715_MIN_775.htm\">Council voted<\/a> to join\u00a0 the Victorian Greenhouse Alliance\u2019s Local Government Power Purchase Agreement (LGPPA) joint tender seeking a supply contract for renewable energy. Up to 67% of Council\u2019s current total electricity consumption could be supplied under such an agreement for a period of up to 10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whitehorse City Council is implementing a $2 million energy performance contract (EPC) across eight of its sites in an effort to improve energy efficiency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":35229,"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-35228","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>More Solar Energy On The Cards For Victoria&#039;s Whitehorse City Council<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Whitehorse City Council is implementing a $2 million energy performance contract (EPC) across eight of its sites in an effort to improve energy efficiency.\" \/>\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\/whitehorse-energy-efficiency-mb1306\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"More Solar Energy On The Cards For Victoria&#039;s Whitehorse City Council\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Whitehorse City Council is implementing a $2 million energy performance contract (EPC) across eight of its sites in an effort to improve energy efficiency.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/whitehorse-energy-efficiency-mb1306\/\" \/>\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=\"2019-11-25T20:24:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/whitehorse-solar-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\/whitehorse-energy-efficiency-mb1306\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/whitehorse-energy-efficiency-mb1306\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"More Solar Energy On The Cards For Victoria&#8217;s Whitehorse City Council\u00a0\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-11-25T20:24:19+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/whitehorse-energy-efficiency-mb1306\/\"},\"wordCount\":403,\"commentCount\":2,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/whitehorse-energy-efficiency-mb1306\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/whitehorse-solar-energy.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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