{"id":42085,"date":"2020-08-10T06:37:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T20:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=42085"},"modified":"2020-08-10T06:37:32","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T20:07:32","slug":"solar-queensland-hospitals-mb1635","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-queensland-hospitals-mb1635\/","title":{"rendered":"Call For Solar Panels And Batteries At All QLD Public Hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42086\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/solar-qld-hospitals.jpg\" alt=\"Solar energy and Queensland hospitals\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/solar-qld-hospitals.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/solar-qld-hospitals-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/solar-qld-hospitals-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/solar-qld-hospitals-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Four health and medical associations are calling for solar power and battery systems to be installed at all 122 public hospitals in Queensland.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The bodies joining Queensland Conservation Council in urging the State Government to commit to the rollout within the next year are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AMA Queensland<\/li>\n<li>Queensland Nurses and Midwives Union (QNMU)<\/li>\n<li>Climate and Health Alliance<\/li>\n<li>Doctors for the Environment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Queensland nurses and midwives strongly support the reduction of waste and the introduction of solar energy in Queensland\u2019s hospitals and health services,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medianet.com.au\/releases\/190076\/\">said<\/a> QNMU Secretary Beth Mohle. &#8220;Utilising currently unused spaces to install solar and help power our hospitals will benefit Queenslanders, the environment and the economy.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The installation of PV systems at public hospitals is already occurring in other states. For example, in Victoria work is finishing up on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/victoria-hospital-solar-mb1386\/\">$13.5 million Regional Health Solar Program<\/a>, which involved the installation of solar panels at a total of 74 healthcare and related facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Across the border in New South Wales, a grant was announced last month to support\u00a0 the installation of a 600kW <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/armidale-hospital-solar-mb1611\/\">rooftop solar system at Armidale Hospital<\/a>. Earlier in the year, the Berejiklian Government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-hospitals-nsw-mb1387\/\">announced<\/a> Hornsby Ku-ring-gai, Fairfield, Canterbury and John Hunter hospitals would be having large solar power systems installed. There may be more hospital projects to be announced as a result of the revamped NSW Government Resource Efficiency Policy (GREP) released early this year that beefed up the State Government&#8217;s solar energy generation target.<\/p>\n<h2>Solar + Storage &#8220;A Sensible Solution&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>Queensland Conservation Council notes the state&#8217;s healthcare sector accounts for seven per cent of QLD&#8217;s carbon emissions and Director Louise Matthiesson says rolling out solar and energy storage is a sensible solution.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt creates jobs, saves public funds, improves our public assets, creates energy storage that helps strengthen our grid, and reduces emissions that drive climate change.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Solar And Hospitals In Queensland<\/h2>\n<p>The largest PV system at a hospital in Queensland that I&#8217;m aware of is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-bundaberg-hospital-mb0062\/\">545kW system<\/a> installed at Friendly Society Private Hospital in Bundaberg by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/installer-review\/gem-energy\/\">GEM Energy<\/a> in 2017. Back in 2012, a 266kW system was installed at Hervey Bay Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from those two systems, there doesn&#8217;t appear to be many (or perhaps even any) other significant hospital installations in the state. In terms of related services, <span id=\"releaseContent\">Group Linen Services <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-linen-services-queensland-mb0543\/\">announced in 2018<\/a> it was installing solar power systems at its facilities at Prince Charles Hospital and Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Queensland Government has set a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnrme.qld.gov.au\/energy\/initiatives\/achieving-our-renewable-energy-targets\">renewable energy target of 50%<\/a> by 2030 &#8211; installing solar panels on public hospitals across the state could play a part in helping it reach that target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four health and medical associations are calling for solar power and battery systems to be installed at all 122 public hospitals in Queensland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":42086,"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-42085","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>Call For Solar Panels And Batteries At All QLD Public Hospitals<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Four health and medical associations are calling for solar power and battery systems to be installed at all 122 public hospitals in Queensland.\" \/>\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\/solar-queensland-hospitals-mb1635\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Call For Solar Panels And Batteries At All QLD Public Hospitals\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Four health and medical associations are calling for solar power and battery systems to be installed at all 122 public hospitals in Queensland.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-queensland-hospitals-mb1635\/\" \/>\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=\"2020-08-09T20:07:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/solar-qld-hospitals.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\/solar-queensland-hospitals-mb1635\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-queensland-hospitals-mb1635\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"Call For Solar Panels And Batteries At All QLD Public Hospitals\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-08-09T20:07:32+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-queensland-hospitals-mb1635\/\"},\"wordCount\":441,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-queensland-hospitals-mb1635\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/solar-qld-hospitals.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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