{"id":49178,"date":"2021-04-09T06:03:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T19:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=49178"},"modified":"2021-04-09T06:03:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T19:33:18","slug":"eurobodalla-renewables-ppa-mb1949","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/eurobodalla-renewables-ppa-mb1949\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurobodalla Shire Council Seals Renewable Energy Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49179\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/eurobodalla-shire-solar.jpg\" alt=\"Eurobodalla Shire Council - solar energy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/eurobodalla-shire-solar.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/eurobodalla-shire-solar-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/eurobodalla-shire-solar-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/eurobodalla-shire-solar-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NSW&#8217;s Eurobodalla Shire Council (ESC) is on track to achieving its renewable energy target after inking a clean power purchase agreement.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The PPA with ENGIE-backed Simply Energy involves sourcing electricity from solar farms at Parkes and Griffith in New South Wales, and from wind farms in the state&#8217;s New England region scheduled to be operational in 2024. Under the arrangement, 80 per cent of Council\u2019s total electricity load for larger energy-use sites will be covered, such as for its administration building in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/location\/moruya-2537-nsw\/\">Moruya<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Council\u2019s environment services manager Deb Lenson, ESC&#8217;s electricity bill runs to around $1.5 million each year and the PPA was secured at a &#8220;competitive price&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe\u2019re now well on course to achieving our target of sourcing 100 per cent of Council\u2019s energy from renewables by 2030 and reducing our CO2 emissions,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esc.nsw.gov.au\/news-and-events\/latest-news\/2021\/council-powers-up-with-renewable-energy\">said<\/a> Ms. Lenson. &#8220;We\u2019ll continue to look for other opportunities to supply renewable energy for the remaining 20 per cent of Council facilities, which are our smaller sites that use less power, like community halls and public toilets.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Solar Power &#8220;A Safe Bet&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>One great opportunity is installing more rooftop solar power, not that Council has been a slouch when it comes to on-site solar energy generation. It has more than 3,000 solar panels installed at 28 Council facilities across the Shire, with a collective capacity of 750kW. PV installed to date is saving $180,000 a year in energy costs.<\/p>\n<p>Council has also been promoting PV uptake across the Shire and previously stated &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-eurobodalla-shire-mb1478\/\">solar is a safe bet<\/a>&#8221; for households and businesses within its boundaries. It noted in March last year more than 20 percent of homes had panels installed. Eurobodalla Council\u2019s sustainability coordinator at the time mentioned it took a decade from the first grid-connected solar installation to reach 10 megawatts of PV capacity, but only another 2 years to hit 20MW.<\/p>\n<p>Solar uptake in the community has continued to grow since then, with the Australian Photovoltaic Institute (APVI) estimating the proportion of dwellings in the local government area with panels installed to be 24.2% as at the end of December last year.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s still little in the way of large-scale PV operating in the Shire at this point, with the biggest systems noted as being at\u00a0 Bunnings in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/location\/batemans-bay-2536-nsw\/\">Batemans Bay<\/a> (240kW) and Woolworths in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/location\/narooma-2546-nsw\/\">Narooma<\/a> (185kW).<\/p>\n<p>ESC is walking the talk in other ways as well &#8211; including through membership of the Climate Council&#8217;s Cities Power Partnership, which it joined in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Council also previously set a goal of reducing its total energy emissions by 80% from a 2005\/06 baseline by 2030 under its Emissions Reduction Plan 2017-2021. It is currently reviewing the Plan with view to including more actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to make the organisation more &#8220;climate resilient&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Other related activities Eurobodalla Shire Council has engaged in include <span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Public lighting can use a large proportion of a city\u2019s energy budget - roll out energy efficient lighting (particularly street lighting) across the municipality. Upgrade all street lighting to LED by June 2021. The recent LED upgrade was only conducted on residential roads. Essential Energy, the network provider, are still conducting trials on LEDs for main roads and have not approved them for wide scale use in Eurobodalla yet. These trials are expected to be completed in the near future which will enable all remaining street lights to be upgraded to LED. This is expected to save 390 tonnes of CO2e\/yr. Investigate the opportunities presented by smart controls for street lights. Smart controls that are connected to street lights can enable lights to be dimmed up or down in response to a range of inputs. Lights can be remotely monitored to enable early failure detection. They may also act as the enabling platform for 'smart cities' by transmitting community wide data and establishing connectivity with other devices in the public domain.&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:769,&quot;3&quot;:[null,0],&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0}\">upgrading street lighting to LEDs, which is due to be completed by June this year, and capture and flaring of the potent greenhouse gas methane at a couple of landfill sites.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NSW&#8217;s Eurobodalla Shire Council (ESC) is on track to achieving its renewable energy target after inking a clean power purchase agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":49179,"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-49178","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>Eurobodalla Shire Council Seals Renewable Energy Deal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"NSW&#039;s Eurobodalla Shire Council is on track to achieving its renewable energy target after inking a clean power purchase agreement.\" \/>\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\/eurobodalla-renewables-ppa-mb1949\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Eurobodalla Shire Council Seals Renewable Energy Deal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"NSW&#039;s Eurobodalla Shire Council is on track to achieving its renewable energy target after inking a clean power purchase agreement.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/eurobodalla-renewables-ppa-mb1949\/\" \/>\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=\"2021-04-08T19:33:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/eurobodalla-shire-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\/eurobodalla-renewables-ppa-mb1949\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/eurobodalla-renewables-ppa-mb1949\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"Eurobodalla Shire Council Seals Renewable Energy Deal\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-04-08T19:33:18+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/eurobodalla-renewables-ppa-mb1949\/\"},\"wordCount\":503,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/eurobodalla-renewables-ppa-mb1949\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/eurobodalla-shire-solar.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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