{"id":42200,"date":"2020-08-13T06:20:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T19:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=42200"},"modified":"2020-08-13T06:20:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T19:50:11","slug":"solar-schools-sydney-mb1641","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-schools-sydney-mb1641\/","title":{"rendered":"More Solar My School Installations Roll Out In Sydney&#8217;s East"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_42201\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42201\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42201\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/solar-my-school.jpg\" alt=\"Solar schools in Australia\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/solar-my-school.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/solar-my-school-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/solar-my-school-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/solar-my-school-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-42201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bondi Beach Public School sporting new solar panels<\/p><\/div>\n<p>An initiative in Sydney helping schools to make the switch to solar power has racked up another couple of PV installations.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarmyschool.org.au\/\">Solar my School<\/a> was founded in 2016 by Waverley, Woollahra and Randwick Councils with the goal of making it easier for schools to access the technology through the provision of support and advice from the discovery phase through to handover. Since its founding, the program has expanded to cover 14 Sydney council areas.<\/p>\n<p>To date, the initiative has assisted or is currently assisting 117 schools in getting solar panels installed. Among those to recently benefit from the program are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bondi Beach Public School: 70kW system expected to save the school $20,000 each year and avoid 91 tonnes carbon emissions annually.<\/li>\n<li>Clovelly Public School: 63kW system estimated to save around $13,000 each year and avoid 69 tonnes carbon emissions annually.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to Waverley Council, these two projects are currently the largest primary school solar power system installations in Sydney\u2019s east. Both schools received environmental grants through Council\u2019s Small Grants Program to assist with installation costs.<\/p>\n<p>Solar my School Program Manager Anthony Weinberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarmyschool.org.au\/powering-more-green-energy-in-sydneys-east\/\">said<\/a> since the initiative began, it has assisted around 90% of schools in Sydney\u2019s east to go solar and that installations at schools account for around eight percent of all solar PV in the region. The program is also assisting schools in other metropolitan areas.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Schools are the ideal sites for solar because they have large, often-unshaded, roof spaces, high daytime electricity demand, long tenure and a commitment to educating their students about positive environmental action,&#8221; said Mr. Weinberg.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Solar In Australian Schools<\/h2>\n<p>4,897 schools across Australia were able to install solar panels under the National Solar Schools Program (NSSP) that operated until the middle of 2013. More recently there have been state government based programs, including initiatives in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/queensland-solar-schools-mb1297\/\">Queensland<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-schools-nt-mb0860\/\">Northern Territory<\/a>. In June this year, the Victorian Government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-schools-victoria-mb1575\/\">announced more schools<\/a> were to receive solar power systems under the Greener Government School Buildings Program.<\/p>\n<p>Some schools choose to switch to solar even if there is no special state-based solar program available, instead accessing other funding sources. We recently noted Westminster School in Adelaide\u2019s south-west has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/westminster-adelaide-solar-mb1628\/\">added 370kW of solar power<\/a> capacity that was funded by private and corporate donors, and a 2019 State Government Capital Grant for Independent Non-Government Schools.<\/p>\n<p>Schools are also eligible for Australia\u2019s major <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/rebate\/\">solar subsidy<\/a>, which can reduce the cost of acquiring a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/commercial-solar-guide.html\">commercial solar system<\/a> by many thousands of dollars. A solar power purchase agreement (PPA) is another option, which involves zero up-front cost. A third party owns, operates and maintains the system and the school is charged for the electricity that it consumes, usually at a significantly lower rate than mains grid supply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An initiative in Sydney helping schools to make the switch to solar power has racked up another couple of PV installations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":42201,"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-42200","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>More Solar My School Installations Roll Out In Sydney&#039;s East<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"An initiative in Sydney helping schools to make the switch to solar power has racked up another couple of PV installations.\" \/>\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-schools-sydney-mb1641\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"More Solar My School Installations Roll Out In Sydney&#039;s East\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An initiative in Sydney helping schools to make the switch to solar power has racked up another couple of PV installations.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-schools-sydney-mb1641\/\" \/>\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=\"2020-08-12T19:50:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/solar-my-school.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-schools-sydney-mb1641\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/solar-schools-sydney-mb1641\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"More Solar My School Installations Roll Out In Sydney&#8217;s East\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-08-12T19:50:11+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/solar-schools-sydney-mb1641\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":474,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/solar-schools-sydney-mb1641\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/08\\\/solar-my-school.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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