{"id":41994,"date":"2020-08-06T09:02:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T22:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=41994"},"modified":"2024-04-12T10:20:46","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T00:50:46","slug":"strata-survey-solar-mb1632","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/strata-survey-solar-mb1632\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey Seeks NSW Strata Owner\/Renter Feedback On Solar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41995\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/solar-strata-nsw.jpg\" alt=\"Solar power and strata properties in NSW\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/solar-strata-nsw.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/solar-strata-nsw-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/solar-strata-nsw-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/solar-strata-nsw-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Strata apartment, townhouse and villa owners, committee members and tenants in NSW have been invited to have their say on barriers to installing sustainability infrastructure including solar panels and battery systems.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Millions of households across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/australia\/\">Australia are benefiting from solar power<\/a>; but a large group that has been left on the sidelines are strata property owners and renters. As part of its policies going into the election last year, the Berejiklian Government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/nsw-coalition-labor-solar-mb0978\/\">pledged<\/a> to make regulatory changes to make it easier for people in apartments to install solar panels, batteries and other sustainable infrastructure. There hasn&#8217;t been much news since on this front, but that process appears to be getting under way.<\/p>\n<p>The Institute for Sustainable Futures (University of Technology Sydney) and Green Strata are running a survey on behalf of the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment as part of a study to understand the barriers to installing sustainability infrastructure and how the Government can make it easier.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sustainability infrastructure&#8221; includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Solar power systems<\/li>\n<li>Batteries<\/li>\n<li>Smart meters<\/li>\n<li>Energy-efficient hot water systems<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/ev-chargers\/\">Electric vehicle charging stations<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Other emerging energy innovations, such as virtual power plants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Insights from the survey will be presented in a final report to the Department to inform decision-making. The survey, <a href=\"https:\/\/utsau.au1.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_6Ala7u9K9xXzRTn?chan=53\"> which can be found here<\/a>, takes 10-15 minutes to complete and will close on August 9.<\/p>\n<p>According to a related post on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tenants.org.au\">Tenants.org.au<\/a>, 18% of houses in NSW have solar power systems installed<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/strata-survey-solar-mb1632\/#en-41994-1' id='enref-41994-1' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(41994)'>1<\/a><\/sup>, while only 0.5% of strata schemes have solar PV.<\/p>\n<h2>Solar Gardens Part Of The Solution<\/h2>\n<p>The Community Power Agency has previously stated New South Wales has the highest number of energy users &#8220;locked out&#8221; from solar power in Australia.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8221; According to ABS at least 30% of households rent and 21% live in apartments,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/cpagency.org.au\/new-campaign-demands-solar-for-all-australians\/\">it said<\/a>. &#8221; Assuming some overlap, that means at least 1 million households are locked-out of solar in NSW.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Last year, the Agency and 19 other community groups launched a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/cpagency.org.au\/solarforall\/\">Solar For All<\/a>&#8221; campaign, calling for policy and funding support across Australia for solutions to this lockout, including solar gardens. These are large centralised solar installations participants purchase a small share in; with the electricity generated credited to their power bills.<\/p>\n<p>There are solar garden projects already under way in Australia, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/haystacks.solargarden.org.au\/\">Haystacks Solar Garden<\/a> in the NSW Riverina region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strata apartment, townhouse and villa owners, committee members and tenants in NSW have been invited to have their say on barriers to installing sustainability infrastructure including solar panels and battery systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":41995,"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-41994","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>Survey Seeks NSW Strata Owner\/Renter Feedback On Solar<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Strata apartment, townhouse and villa owners and tenants in NSW have been invited to have their say on barriers to installing sustainability infrastructure.\" \/>\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\/strata-survey-solar-mb1632\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Survey Seeks NSW Strata Owner\/Renter Feedback On Solar\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Strata apartment, townhouse and villa owners and tenants in NSW have been invited to have their say on barriers to installing sustainability infrastructure.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/strata-survey-solar-mb1632\/\" \/>\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=\"2020-08-05T22:32:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-04-12T00:50:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/solar-strata-nsw.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\\\/strata-survey-solar-mb1632\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/strata-survey-solar-mb1632\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"Survey Seeks NSW Strata Owner\\\/Renter Feedback On Solar\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-08-05T22:32:11+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-04-12T00:50:46+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/strata-survey-solar-mb1632\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":401,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/strata-survey-solar-mb1632\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/08\\\/solar-strata-nsw.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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