{"id":57141,"date":"2021-12-20T06:56:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T20:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=57141"},"modified":"2024-05-15T11:54:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T02:24:58","slug":"solar-battery-pimpama-hub-mb2280","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-battery-pimpama-hub-mb2280\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar And Battery Powered Pimpama Sports Hub Opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57142\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/pimpama-sports-solar.jpg\" alt=\"Pimpama Sports Hub - solar panels and battery storage\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/pimpama-sports-solar.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/pimpama-sports-solar-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/pimpama-sports-solar-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/pimpama-sports-solar-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Close to two thousand solar panels and a battery system are helping to power the newly opened Pimpama Sports Hub on Queensland&#8217;s Gold Coast.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>City of Gold Coast\u2019s $94 million Pimpama Sports Hub officially opened its doors on Friday. Occupying 14 hectares, the integrated aquatic, sporting and community precinct in the Gold Coast&#8217;s north is the City&#8217;s largest civic infrastructure project to date.<\/p>\n<p>Among its many facilities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aquatic centre with five pools<\/li>\n<li>Community centre with main hall, meetings rooms and dance studio<\/li>\n<li>12 netball courts<\/li>\n<li>Eight tennis courts and one junior hot shot court<\/li>\n<li>Caf\u00e9, seating and barbecue facilities<\/li>\n<li>Fitness centre<\/li>\n<li>Events park including an amphitheatre<\/li>\n<li>Parklands and shaded playground<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis facility will be remembered as one of the best investments we have ever made in the northern Gold Coast,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au\/Council-region\/City-news\/Pimpama-Sports-Hub-officially-opens\">said Mayor Tom Tate<\/a>. &#8220;It\u2019s simply outstanding and will put smiles on thousands of faces every year.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Council expects the facility to attract up to 800,000 visitors in its first year of operation. It&#8217;s been quite an achievement given the idea for the Hub was first raised at a meeting in 2015.<\/p>\n<h2>Gas Cogeneration, Solar And Battery Power<\/h2>\n<p>Operating such a huge facility is accompanied by major electricity consumption, but power costs will be reduced through the facility&#8217;s solar energy and battery storage features.<\/p>\n<p>1,924 panels have been installed across Pimpama Sports Hub rooftops for a total 910 kW capacity that will generate equivalent to 50 per cent of the electricity required for the site.\u00a0 According to Council, the Hub also has a 316kWh battery system that I&#8217;ve also seen reported as being &#8220;444 kilowatts&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, a gas-fired cogeneration system at the Hub generates both electricity and thermal energy to heat the pools.<\/p>\n<h2>Energy Independence<\/h2>\n<p>Pimpama Sports Hub&#8217;s on-site energy system has been designed to continue to supply power in the event of a mains grid outage. It&#8217;s also operating as part of the City&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/battery-storage\/virtual-power-plants\/\">Virtual Power Plant<\/a> (VPP), which consists of more than 47 city buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 3.3MW of solar PV capacity has been installed by Council to date (it&#8217;s not clear if this includes the Hub), which Council says is saving ratepayers around $400,000 a year in energy costs.<\/p>\n<h2>Electric Vehicle Charging<\/h2>\n<p>Pimpama Sports Hub also hosts six electric vehicle chargers &#8211; 75kW <a href=\"https:\/\/tritiumcharging.com\/product\/rtm-75\/\"> Tritium RTM75<\/a> fast-charging stations. These chargers support <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CHAdeMO\"> CHAdeMO<\/a> (Nissan) and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Combined_Charging_System\"> CCS2<\/a> (Tesla\/Mercedes\/BMW\/Volvo\/Hyundai\/Kia\/Renault) connections.<\/p>\n<p>The Hub&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/ev-chargers\/public\/\">EV charging<\/a> facility is part a network of 10 fast-charging stations installed across the Gold Coast; all of which are offset by solar power generation.<\/p>\n<h2>Pimpama A PV Powerhouse<\/h2>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/location\/pimpama-4209-qld\/\">Pimpama, solar panels<\/a> are a common sight; with more than 9,411 small-scale (&lt;100kW) systems installed across the 4209 postcode as at the end of October this year. Given a population of close to 47,000, the collective capacity of 56,174 kW works out to around 1.2kW of solar capacity per person.<\/p>\n<p>Across the City of Gold Coast, approximately 90,218 solar installations (all capacities) had occurred up to the end of September <a href=\"https:\/\/pv-map.apvi.org.au\/historical#12\/-28.0290\/153.3945\">according to the Australian PV Institute<\/a>. APVI estimates approximately 41.8% of freestanding and semi-detached dwellings in the local government area have had systems installed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Close to two thousand solar panels and a battery system are helping to power the newly opened Pimpama Sports Hub on Queensland&#8217;s Gold Coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":57142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57141","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 v27.5 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Solar And Battery Powered Pimpama Sports Hub Opens<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Close to two thousand solar panels and a battery system are helping to power the newly opened Pimpama Sports Hub on Queensland&#039;s Gold Coast.\" \/>\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\/solar-battery-pimpama-hub-mb2280\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Solar And Battery Powered Pimpama Sports Hub Opens\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Close to two thousand solar panels and a battery system are helping to power the newly opened Pimpama Sports Hub on Queensland&#039;s Gold Coast.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-battery-pimpama-hub-mb2280\/\" \/>\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=\"2021-12-19T20:26:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-15T02:24:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/pimpama-sports-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\\\/solar-battery-pimpama-hub-mb2280\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/solar-battery-pimpama-hub-mb2280\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"Solar And Battery Powered Pimpama Sports Hub Opens\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-12-19T20:26:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-05-15T02:24:58+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/solar-battery-pimpama-hub-mb2280\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":524,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/solar-battery-pimpama-hub-mb2280\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/12\\\/pimpama-sports-solar.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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