{"id":44131,"date":"2020-10-21T06:47:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T20:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=44131"},"modified":"2024-05-15T13:03:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T03:33:09","slug":"kempsey-shire-solar-mb1730","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/kempsey-shire-solar-mb1730\/","title":{"rendered":"More Solar Panels On The Cards For Kempsey Shire Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_44132\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44132\" class=\"size-full wp-image-44132\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/kempsey-council-solar.jpg\" alt=\"Kempsey Shire Council - solar energy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/kempsey-council-solar.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/kempsey-council-solar-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/kempsey-council-solar-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/kempsey-council-solar-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-44132\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: Google Maps<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A bunch of solar panels could be appearing at various Kempsey Shire Council sites in the not-too-distant future after Council&#8217;s adoption of a Long-term Renewable Energy and Water Strategy.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Kempsey Shire local government area is situated in the mid north coast region of New South Wales. Covering an area of 3,380 square kilometres, the Shire is home to around 20,000.<\/p>\n<p>Council joined the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment (DPIE) Sustainable Councils and Communities Program in February this year and subsequently engaged 100% Renewables to assist in the development of a long-term strategy, which was adopted at a Council meeting yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Actions in the Strategy include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sourcing more renewables-based electricity &#8211; based on Council\u2019s current energy mix, purchasing 100% renewables would lead to abatement of 6,559 tonnes of CO2-e annually.<\/li>\n<li>Installing more solar panels at Council operated sites. These could include Council\u2019s Civic Centre, Steuart McIntyre Dam &amp; WTP, South West Rocks Water Treatment Plant and various other locations.<\/li>\n<li>Implementing an electric and hybrid vehicle trial and investigating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/ev-chargers\/public\/\">electric vehicle charging infrastructure<\/a>. If all Council vehicles were electrified and charged with renewables-based electricity, this would provide additional abatement of 1,923t CO2-e per year.<\/li>\n<li>Investing in data management systems to enable energy monitoring and inform decision making.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Strategy offers short-, medium- and long-term solutions, with solar PV featuring in each. It notes Council-operated sites have scope for ~650-860 kW of solar power capacity, which could generate 1,050 MWh to 1,400 MWh of electricity per year. There&#8217;s also an additional 90 to 160 kW of solar capacity technically feasible at tourist parks and swimming pools.<\/p>\n<p>Kempsey Shire Council&#8217;s Long-term Renewable Energy and Water Strategy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kempsey.nsw.gov.au\/council\/meetings\/2020\/2020-10-20\/pubs\/09-01-01-long-term-renewable-energy-and-water-strategy.pdf\">can be viewed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhile Council is not solely responsible for implementing actions to reduce carbon emissions for the entire Shire, Council has a leadership role to play in looking at its own practices to reduce energy emissions where possible,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kempsey.nsw.gov.au\/media-releases\/2020\/mr20201020a.html\">said<\/a> Manager Strategic and Asset Planning, Erin Fuller.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Solar Energy In Kempsey Shire<\/h2>\n<p>Council doesn&#8217;t have much in the way of solar capacity yet &#8211; 50kW on its Dangar Street Depot installed in 2013 &#8211; but PV is pretty popular across the LGA. The Strategy notes 4,004 systems as at September 2020, representing almost 17.7MW of installed capacity. In the 2440 postcode, which includes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/location\/kempsey-2440-nsw\/\">Kempsey<\/a>, more than 2,843 solar systems had been installed with a collective capacity of 13.5MW as at the end of August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bunch of solar panels could be appearing at various Kempsey Shire Council sites in the not-too-distant future after Council&#8217;s adoption of a Long-term Renewable Energy and Water Strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":44132,"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-44131","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 Panels On The Cards For Kempsey Shire Council<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Solar panels could be appearing at more Kempsey Shire Council sites after its adoption of a Long-term Renewable Energy and Water Strategy.\" \/>\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\/kempsey-shire-solar-mb1730\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"More Solar Panels On The Cards For Kempsey Shire Council\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Solar panels could be appearing at more Kempsey Shire Council sites after its adoption of a Long-term Renewable Energy and Water Strategy.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/kempsey-shire-solar-mb1730\/\" \/>\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=\"2020-10-20T20:17:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-15T03:33:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/kempsey-council-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\\\/kempsey-shire-solar-mb1730\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/kempsey-shire-solar-mb1730\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"More Solar Panels On The Cards For Kempsey Shire Council\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-20T20:17:09+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-05-15T03:33:09+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/kempsey-shire-solar-mb1730\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":414,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/kempsey-shire-solar-mb1730\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/10\\\/kempsey-council-solar.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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