{"id":40531,"date":"2020-06-15T07:26:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T20:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=40531"},"modified":"2020-06-15T07:26:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T20:56:29","slug":"kalbarri-skywalk-solar-mb1563","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/kalbarri-skywalk-solar-mb1563\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Australia&#8217;s Kalbarri Skywalk Opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40532\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/kalbarri-skywalk.jpg\" alt=\"Kalbarri Skywalk\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/kalbarri-skywalk.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/kalbarri-skywalk-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/kalbarri-skywalk-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/kalbarri-skywalk-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kalbarri Skywalk in WA&#8217;s Kalbarri National Park officially opened on Friday, with the attraction&#8217;s kiosk to be powered by a stand-alone solar and energy storage system.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/parks.dpaw.wa.gov.au\/park\/kalbarri\">Kalbarri National Park<\/a> is located approximately 570 km north of Perth, in the Mid West region the state. One of the many interesting features of the Park is Murchison River Gorge. Carved by the lower reaches of the Murchison River, the gorge is more than 80 kilometres long.<\/p>\n<p>The two cantilevered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernaustralia.com\/en\/Attraction\/Kalbarri_Skywalk\/5d8448c95e99ee4e6987a5c6#\/\">Kalbarri Skywalks<\/a> sit 100-metres high above the base of the gorge, projecting 25 and 17 metres beyond the cliff face.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Today is an exciting day for everyone who was involved in the development of this bold and iconic facility &#8211; congratulations to the Nanda Traditional Owners, the Mid-West Development Commission, the Parks and Wildlife Service at the Department of Biodiversity of Conservation and Attractions and all the contractors,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au\/Pages\/McGowan\/2020\/06\/The-wait-is-over-Kalbarri-Skywalk-opens.aspx\">said<\/a> WA Environment Minister Stephen Dawson.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The $24 million project also included construction of a kiosk, shade shelters, toilets, parking, roads and upgrades to Meanarra Hill and Z Bend tourist sites.<\/p>\n<p>Being a long way from the mains grid, solar and storage have been implemented to help power the kiosk that will open later this year. Wilco Electrical has installed a 40kW solar power system, <span class=\"color_11\">80 kWh <\/span> <span class=\"color_11\">of <\/span><span class=\"color_11\"><span class=\"st\">battery storage<\/span> and a fully<\/span><span class=\"st\"><span class=\"color_11\"> automated 10kVa backup generator<\/span><\/span><span class=\"color_11\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"color_11\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40533 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/kalbarri-skywalk-solar.jpg\" alt=\"Kalbarrii Skywalk solar and storage system\" width=\"835\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/kalbarri-skywalk-solar.jpg 835w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/kalbarri-skywalk-solar-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/kalbarri-skywalk-solar-768x430.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 835px) 100vw, 835px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"st\">Minister Dawson says Kalbarri Skywalk is projected to inject up to $73 million in additional expenditure into the local economy over the next decade. While the COVID-19 situation has no doubt put a dampener on visits to Kalbarri National Park this year due to travel restrictions, annual visits jumped by almost 100,000 over the past five years to reach more than 450,000 in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"st\">Off-Grid Solar + Storage To Boom In WA<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"st\">On a related note, Stand-Alone Power Systems (SPSs) using solar panels, battery storage and generators for backup are to become increasingly common in Western Australia &#8211; even in some areas currently serviced by powerlines. The passing of the Electricity Industry Amendment Bill 2019 by State Parliament in April this year enables Western Power to use stand-alone power systems and storage devices as part of the South West Interconnected System (SWIS), following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/stand-alone-solar-wa-mb0508\/\">previous successful trials<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"st\">Currently, half of Western Power&#8217;s overhead distribution network services less than three per cent of its customers. Western Power <a href=\"https:\/\/westernpower.com.au\/community\/news-opinion\/new-legislation-boon-for-customer-choice-and-wa-businesses\/\">says<\/a> it can install thousands of SPS units over the next three decades, avoiding hundreds of millions of dollars in replacing poles and wires. Additionally, the widespread use of SPS will provide better quality and more reliable power for &#8220;fringe-of-grid&#8221; customers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"st\">In April, the company said it was installing 57 SPS in the Midwest, Great Southern and Wheatbelt regions this year, with a further 100 to be installed in 2021. A larger Western Power project involving solar energy and storage, but not entirely off-grid, is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/kalbarri-microgrid-renewables-mb1330\/\">Kalbarri Microgrid<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalbarri Skywalk in WA&#8217;s Kalbarri National Park officially opened on Friday, with the attraction&#8217;s kiosk to be powered by a stand-alone solar and energy storage system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":40532,"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-40531","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 v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Western Australia&#039;s Kalbarri Skywalk Opens - SolarQuotes Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kalbarri Skywalk in WA&#039;s Kalbarri National Park officially opened Friday, with the attraction&#039;s kiosk to be powered by an off-grid solar and storage system.\" \/>\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\/kalbarri-skywalk-solar-mb1563\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Western Australia&#039;s Kalbarri Skywalk Opens\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kalbarri Skywalk in WA&#039;s Kalbarri National Park officially opened Friday, with the attraction&#039;s kiosk to be powered by an off-grid solar and storage system.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/kalbarri-skywalk-solar-mb1563\/\" \/>\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=\"2020-06-14T20:56:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/kalbarri-skywalk.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\\\/kalbarri-skywalk-solar-mb1563\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/kalbarri-skywalk-solar-mb1563\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"Western Australia&#8217;s Kalbarri Skywalk Opens\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-06-14T20:56:29+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/kalbarri-skywalk-solar-mb1563\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":469,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/kalbarri-skywalk-solar-mb1563\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/06\\\/kalbarri-skywalk.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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