{"id":53107,"date":"2021-08-18T06:13:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T19:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=53107"},"modified":"2021-08-18T06:13:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T19:43:38","slug":"solar-bendigo-plan-mb2120","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-bendigo-plan-mb2120\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Power&#8217;s Role In Bendigo&#8217;s New Climate Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53108\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/bendigo-carbon-strategy.jpg\" alt=\"Bendigo Draft Climate Change &amp; Environment Strategy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/bendigo-carbon-strategy.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/bendigo-carbon-strategy-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/bendigo-carbon-strategy-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/bendigo-carbon-strategy-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Greater Bendigo City Council yesterday released its draft Climate Change and Environment Strategy 2021-2026 for community comment.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The City of Greater Bendigo is a local government area situated about 150 kilometres north-west of the Melbourne CBD. As well as Bendigo itself, among the City&#8217;s many suburbs and localities are Heathcote, Lockwood and Ravenswood.<\/p>\n<p>The LGA covers an area of around <span class=\"Eq0J8 LrzXr kno-fv\">3,000 km\u00b2 and is home to approximately 120,000 people. Agriculture is a significant activity in the area &#8211;\u00a0 including poultry and pig farming, sheep and cattle grazing, and vineyards. Climate change related threats such as more frequent and severe droughts, bushfires and storms are a growing concern.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cCouncil acknowledges the seriousness of the biodiversity and climate breakdown that is occurring and is committed to acting to protect the community and the ecosystems we depend on. Our health and future are directly linked to a healthy environment,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bendigo.vic.gov.au\/About\/Media-Releases\/city-releases-draft-climate-change-and-environment-strategy-community-comment\">said<\/a> City of Greater Bendigo Mayor Cr Jennifer Alden.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The action areas covered by the draft plan:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Zero carbon<\/li>\n<li>Circular economy<\/li>\n<li>Sustainable &amp; Active Transport<\/li>\n<li>Sustainable Food Systems<\/li>\n<li>Water Sensitive Bendigo<\/li>\n<li>Biodiversity and regeneration<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Zero Carbon And Solar Energy<\/h2>\n<p>In terms of Council operations, goals to be achieved by 2026 under the zero carbon action area include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No new gas connections in new council buildings built after this year<\/li>\n<li>60% of council owned and operated small and medium-sized\u00a0 buildings transitioned from gas<\/li>\n<li>90% of Council owned buildings to have solar systems installed (100% by 2036)<\/li>\n<li>35% of\u00a0 light vehicle fleet switched to electric (100% by 2036)<\/li>\n<li>15% of heavy plant vehicles switched to electric (100% by 2036)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the wider City of Bendigo community, 2026 goals include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>40% of households and businesses will have solar power systems installed<\/li>\n<li>Electric vehicles represent 20% of all cars in Greater Bendigo<\/li>\n<li>No gas connection in new subdivisions<\/li>\n<li>One zero-carbon new development<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In terms of the community solar installation goal, there&#8217;s some way to go. The Australian Photovoltaic Institute <a href=\"https:\/\/pv-map.apvi.org.au\/historical#11\/-36.7353\/144.2796\">estimates<\/a> approximately 24.7% dwellings had panels as at the end of March this year. APVI pegs the number of dwellings in the local government area at 54,491. So, 40% would be just shy of 21,800 systems compared to 14,224 installed as at the end of March &#8211; another ~7,600 installations in 5 years to make the target.<\/p>\n<p>As well as the emissions and electricity bill reduction benefits for their owners, 7,600 PV installations over 5 years could keep a few <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/installers\/cities\/bendigo\/\">solar installers in Bendigo<\/a> quite busy and perhaps installations could bypass the 40% mark.<\/p>\n<p>Solar is a pretty good deal in Bendigo &#8211; particularly at the moment as residents can &#8220;double-dip&#8221; on subsidies. Bendigoians (?) can take advantage of the national <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/rebate\/\">solar rebate<\/a> that can knock thousands off a system, plus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/victorian-solar-rebate.html\">Victoria&#8217;s solar panel rebate<\/a> currently worth up to an extra $1,400 subsidy.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/systems\/6kw\/\">6.6kW solar system<\/a> (considered &#8220;entry-level&#8221; these days &#8211; many households are installing larger) installed in Bendigo could achieve simple payback in under 4 years based on results from SolarQuotes&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/solar-calculator\/\">solar calculator<\/a> used with its default settings.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the 2026 goals, Council has set its sights on 500% of the region\u2019s 2021 energy demand to be sourced though locally generated renewables by 2036, and 50% community ownership of local renewable energy by the same year.<\/p>\n<p>The draft strategy is <a href=\"https:\/\/letstalkgreaterbendigo.com.au\/climate-change-and-environment-strategy-2021-2026\"> available to view here<\/a>, with submissions closing on September 6, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greater Bendigo City Council yesterday released its draft Climate Change and Environment Strategy 2021-2026 for community comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":53108,"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-53107","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) - 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