{"id":42664,"date":"2020-08-31T07:13:26","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T20:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=42664"},"modified":"2020-08-31T07:14:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T20:44:53","slug":"mornington-shire-carbon-solar-mb1663","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/mornington-shire-carbon-solar-mb1663\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Energy And Mornington Peninsula&#8217;s Climate Emergency Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42665\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mornington-carbon-solar.jpg\" alt=\"Mornington Peninsular Shire - zero carbon and solar energy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mornington-carbon-solar.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mornington-carbon-solar-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mornington-carbon-solar-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mornington-carbon-solar-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Victoria&#8217;s Mornington Peninsula Shire Council last week unanimously adopted its ambitious Climate Emergency Plan &#8211; and solar power plays an important role in it.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Mornington Peninsula Shire is located south-east of Melbourne. It covers an area of 723km<sup>2<\/sup> and is home to around 164,000 people who live in localities including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/location\/mornington-3931-vic\/\">Mornington<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/location\/rye-3941-vic\/\">Rye<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/location\/hastings-3915-vic\/\">Hastings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In August last year, Mornington Peninsula Shire Council declared a climate emergency, the 34th Australian local government to do so (the current tally is 96). Development of a climate emergency plan was part of Council&#8217;s commitments when making the declaration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mornpen.vic.gov.au\/files\/assets\/public\/new-website-documents\/about-us\/strategies-amp-plans\/docs\/our-climate-emergency-response-2020-2030-_-a-snapshot-of-the-full-response.pdf\">The Plan<\/a> lays out a 10-year map including targets, referred to as &#8220;summits&#8221; in relation to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>leadership and governance<\/li>\n<li>climate advocacy<\/li>\n<li>zero carbon energy<\/li>\n<li>a resilient and adaptive community<\/li>\n<li>sustainable transport and travel<\/li>\n<li>sustainable land use and environmental restoration<\/li>\n<li>circular economy and zero waste.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSince the declaration, we\u2019ve talked with our community; listened to concerns, gathered ideas and nutted out how we can collaborate to build a better future,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mornpen.vic.gov.au\/About-Us\/News-Media-Publications\/News-Media\/Council-ensuring-the-Peninsulas-future-\u2013-our-Climate-Emergency-Plan\">said<\/a> Mornington Peninsula Shire Mayor Sam Hearn. &#8220;Along the way, we have encountered a stark reminder that we are all connected and our current and future wellbeing is collective&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Summit 3: Zero Carbon Energy<\/h2>\n<p>Electricity and gas used in the Peninsula&#8217;s buildings represent the local government area&#8217;s biggest source of carbon emissions (61%). A key target of the zero carbon energy &#8220;summit&#8221; is 200MW of renewable electricity generation capacity in place locally, which will be enough to power the equivalent of 50,000 homes.<\/p>\n<p>Supplementary targets:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>By next year, Mornington Peninsula Shire will slash its own emissions to net zero and become carbon-neutral accredited.<\/li>\n<li>The Shire (assumed: Council) will source all its electricity from renewables by 2023.<\/li>\n<li>50% of all buildings in the LGA will have solar panels installed by 2030.<\/li>\n<li>Carbon emissions associated with all residential buildings and businesses will be reduced 70% based on 2018 levels by 2030.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In terms of solar power capacity, around 75MW has been installed in the LGA to date. The Australian Photovoltaic Institute (APVI) estimates 17.3% of compatible dwellings in the Mornington Peninsula Shire area have solar panels installed, against a Victorian average of 19.8%.<\/p>\n<h2>Council And Solar Power<\/h2>\n<p>Mornington Peninsula Shire Council has already made a solid start on embracing solar energy. In February last year we reported on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-power-mornington-mb0926\/\">new solar rollout<\/a> building on previous efforts, which would see a total of 2,440 solar panels (707kW collective capacity) on Shire owned and operated buildings once complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria&#8217;s Mornington Peninsula Shire Council last week unanimously adopted its ambitious Climate Emergency Plan &#8211; and solar power plays an important role in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":42665,"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-42664","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>Solar Energy And Mornington Peninsula&#039;s Climate Emergency Plan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mornington Peninsula Shire Council last week unanimously adopted its ambitious Climate Emergency Plan - solar power plays an important role.\" \/>\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\/mornington-shire-carbon-solar-mb1663\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Solar Energy And Mornington Peninsula&#039;s Climate Emergency Plan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mornington Peninsula Shire Council last week unanimously adopted its ambitious Climate Emergency Plan - solar power plays an important role.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/mornington-shire-carbon-solar-mb1663\/\" \/>\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=\"2020-08-30T20:43:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-08-30T20:44:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mornington-carbon-solar.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\/mornington-shire-carbon-solar-mb1663\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/mornington-shire-carbon-solar-mb1663\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"Solar Energy And Mornington Peninsula&#8217;s Climate Emergency Plan\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-08-30T20:43:26+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-08-30T20:44:53+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/mornington-shire-carbon-solar-mb1663\/\"},\"wordCount\":407,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/mornington-shire-carbon-solar-mb1663\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mornington-carbon-solar.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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