{"id":36676,"date":"2020-01-22T05:47:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T19:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=36676"},"modified":"2020-01-22T05:47:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T19:17:59","slug":"noosa-transforming-australia-mb1376","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/noosa-transforming-australia-mb1376\/","title":{"rendered":"Noosa To Host Cities Power Partnership Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36677\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/transforming-australia-noosa.jpg\" alt=\"Transforming Australian Energy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/transforming-australia-noosa.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/transforming-australia-noosa-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/transforming-australia-noosa-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/transforming-australia-noosa-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Noosa Council has been chosen to host a national summit later this year for local government, industry and community leaders doing their bit towards Australia\u2019s energy transformation.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/citiespowerpartnership.org.au\/\"> Cities Power Partnership<\/a> is an initiative of the Climate Council. Its membership is currently comprised of 123 councils from across the country, representing almost 11 million Australians &#8211; around 43% of this country&#8217;s population. Councils that sign on to the CPP make five pledges relating to either renewable energy, efficiency, transport or working in other ways to tackle climate change.<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming summit, <a href=\"https:\/\/transformingaustralia2020.org.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Transforming Australia 2020<\/a>, will be held 28-30 October 2020 at J Theatre Noosa in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/location\/noosa-heads-4567-qld\/\">Noosa Heads<\/a> and seeks to further develop regional climate and energy solutions. Topics to be covered include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Building communities that are bushfire resilient<\/li>\n<li>Taking communities to net-zero emissions<\/li>\n<li>Investing in large-scale renewables<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAfter the success of the last Cities Power Partnership summit, we\u2019re excited to drawing local government powerhouses together once more in Noosa to accelerate Australia\u2019s climate and energy transformation,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/citiespowerpartnership.org.au\/2020\/01\/21\/media-release-noosa-host-climate-summit\/\">said<\/a> CPP Director David Craven.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Those attending the event will also have opportunity to visit local projects, including\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/sunshine-coast-solar-operational-mb0135\/\">Sunshine Coast Solar Farm<\/a>, which enabled summit partner Sunshine Coast Council to offset 100 per cent of its electricity consumption with renewable energy. At the time of writing, the facility had generated <span class=\"lifetime-generation-value\">71,175.7<\/span> <span class=\"lifetime-generation-value-units\">MWh of electricity since it was commissioned, and has avoided <span class=\"info-panel-value\">56,940<\/span><\/span><span class=\"info-panel-value\"> tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions according to live generation data <a href=\"https:\/\/solarfarm.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au\/\">that can be viewed here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"info-panel-value\">Councils, Carbon And Mosquitos<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Noosa Council has some pretty solid street cred when it comes to tackling climate change. It was the first council in Queensland <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/noosa-melbourne-climate-emergency-mb1137\/\">to declare a climate emergency<\/a> and has been keen to reap the emission and energy cost reduction benefits of solar energy. Noosa Mayor Tony Wellington says Council has installed more than a thousand solar panels to date. One of its recent installations is a 72.5-kilowatt system comprised of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/noosaville-flexible-solar-mb1312\/\">250 flexible eArche solar panels<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;When it comes to coping with the impacts of climate change, we\u2019re all in this together,&#8221; said Mayor Wellington. &#8220;And so it\u2019s together that we must develop bold climate and energy solutions. As the Dalai Lama said, if you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As part of its CPP pledges, Noosa Shire Council has made a commitment to be carbon neutral by 2026 &#8211; and judging by the zeal it&#8217;s tackling the challenge with, Council should achieve its goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noosa Council has been chosen to host a national summit later this year for local government, industry and community leaders doing their bit towards Australia\u2019s energy transformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":36677,"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-36676","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>Noosa To Host Cities Power Partnership Summit - SolarQuotes Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Noosa Council will host a national summit for local government, industry and community leaders working towards Australia\u2019s energy transformation.\" \/>\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-transforming-australia-mb1376\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Noosa To Host Cities Power Partnership Summit\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Noosa Council will host a national summit for local government, industry and community leaders working towards Australia\u2019s energy transformation.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/noosa-transforming-australia-mb1376\/\" \/>\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=\"2020-01-21T19:17:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/transforming-australia-noosa.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\/noosa-transforming-australia-mb1376\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/noosa-transforming-australia-mb1376\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"Noosa To Host Cities Power Partnership Summit\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-01-21T19:17:59+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/noosa-transforming-australia-mb1376\/\"},\"wordCount\":414,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/noosa-transforming-australia-mb1376\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/transforming-australia-noosa.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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The rollout was part of an ongoing effort to harvest more energy from Council rooftops and take less from the mains grid. 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The new additions are a Hyundai IONIQ and MG ZS EV, which are replacing a diesel ute and a petrol car. 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Meanwhile, the Australian Government is reportedly playing silly buggers at an important climate summit. 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