{"id":51390,"date":"2021-06-23T06:21:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T19:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=51390"},"modified":"2021-06-23T06:21:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T19:51:29","slug":"subiaco-carbon-neutral-mb2048","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/subiaco-carbon-neutral-mb2048\/","title":{"rendered":"City Of Subiaco Certified Carbon Neutral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/subiaco-carbon-neutral.jpg\" alt=\"City of Subiaco carbon neutrality\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/subiaco-carbon-neutral.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/subiaco-carbon-neutral-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/subiaco-carbon-neutral-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/subiaco-carbon-neutral-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Western Australia&#8217;s City of Subiaco (Council) has been certified carbon neutral under the Commonwealth\u2019s Climate Active program.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Last year council developed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/subiaco-renewable-energy-mb1452\/\"> corporate carbon reduction plan<\/a> with the goal of achieving carbon neutrality by June 2020 and 100% renewable energy for its electricity requirements by 2025. It has has achieved that first goal for the 2019-20 financial year and the City says it will continue to maintain carbon-neutral status each year going forward.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been working towards this milestone for some time now so it\u2019s great to be able to say we\u2019re a certified carbon neutral organisation \u2013 the first [local government] in WA under the Climate Active program,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.subiaco.wa.gov.au\/Your-council\/News-and-media\/News\/2021\/06-June\/City-of-Subiaco-becomes-first-WA-local-government\">said<\/a> Mayor Penny Taylor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The City wasn&#8217;t yet listed on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climateactive.org.au\/buy-climate-active\/certified-brands#category1\">Climate Active web site<\/a> at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<p>As well as reducing operational emissions, Council has taken advantage of certified offsets to achieve carbon neutrality, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a native reforestation project in Western Australia<\/li>\n<li>savanna burning in the NT&#8217;s Tiwi Islands<\/li>\n<li>a wind power project &#8211; in India<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hang on &#8211; how does burning stuff help with emissions reduction?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleanenergyregulator.gov.au\/ERF\/Pages\/Emissions%20Reduction%20Fund%20project%20and%20contract%20registers\/Project%20register\/ERF-Project-Detailed-View.aspx?ListId=%7B7F242924-BF02-45EE-A289-1ABCC954E9CE%7D&amp;ItemID=710\">The project<\/a> involves strategic burning of savanna areas in high rainfall zones during the early dry season to reduce the risk of late dry season wild fires that would burn a lot more.<\/p>\n<p>As for the offsets from wind power in India, well, yeh.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, looking ahead the City has set a few other emissions-related goals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>energy consumption reduced by 20 per cent by 2025<\/li>\n<li>fleet vehicles meeting the Climate Change Authority\u2019s standard by 2025<\/li>\n<li>reduce operational greenhouse gas emissions by 45 per cent by 2030<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>City Of Subiaco And Renewable Energy<\/h2>\n<p>With less than 4 years to reach its 100% renewable energy goal, it seems Council will need to get cracking. By March last year, it only had around 163kW of solar power generation capacity spread across several sites. It&#8217;s not clear if any more solar panels have been installed since or if Council has integrated any other flavours of renewables.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Subiaco is very well acquainted with solar power. It was somewhat of a pioneer in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/commercial-solar-guide.html\">commercial solar<\/a> uptake; with a 20kW system installed in 2012 on the Library &#8211;\u00a0 a fairly large system at the time.<\/p>\n<p>But of course, the City doesn&#8217;t have to install solar panels on its buildings to reach its target. It could also take advantage of a renewables-based Power Purchase Agreement with off-site clean power stations that involve no up-front cost, and these days are a cheaper way to source electricity than conventional mains grid supply.<\/p>\n<p>While the City&#8217;s progress on the solar energy front in recent times isn&#8217;t clear, residents and businesses of the local government area have been getting their solar game on. There have been more than 1,268 small-scale <a href=\"https:\/\/solarquotes.com.au\/location\/subiaco-6008-wa\/\">solar installations in Subiaco<\/a> to date. 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