{"id":58409,"date":"2022-01-31T05:16:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T18:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=58409"},"modified":"2025-12-18T14:18:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:48:26","slug":"bendigo-bank-solar-mb2334","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/bendigo-bank-solar-mb2334\/","title":{"rendered":"Bendigo Bank Chooses Australian-Made Solar Panels For HQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58410\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bendigo-bank-solar.jpg\" alt=\"Bendigo Bank solar panels\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bendigo-bank-solar.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bendigo-bank-solar-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bendigo-bank-solar-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bendigo-bank-solar-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bendigo Bank&#8217;s national headquarters in Victoria is sporting rooftop solar panels manufactured across the border in South Australia.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Operating since December but only formally unveiled last week, the 200kW <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/tindo-solar-review.html\"> Tindo Solar panel<\/a> based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/commercial-solar-guide.html\">commercial solar installation<\/a> (2 x 100kW systems) on the Bendigo Centre has already generated approximately 50MWh of clean electricity; equivalent to around 15 percent of Bendigo Centre&#8217;s power needs over the timeframe.<\/p>\n<p>Tindo says this is one of the largest solar installations in the City of Greater <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/installers\/cities\/bendigo\/\">Bendigo<\/a>. According to information from the Australian Photovoltaic Institute (APVI), larger systems in the LGA as at the end of September last year were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lansell Square: 1.1MW<\/li>\n<li>Bunnings: 328kW<\/li>\n<li>LaTrobe University: 350kW<\/li>\n<li>Bendigo Solar Park: 336kW<\/li>\n<li>Tanloden: 275kW<\/li>\n<li>Gilmac: 467kW<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; and some of those are ground mounted.<\/p>\n<p>Bendigo Centre&#8217;s new rooftop panels add to a solar hot water system and other sustainability features of the building, including a water treatment plant processing around 20,000 litres of waste water per day that is then used in all toilets throughout the building. The building also boasts under-floor displacement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/air-conditioning\/\">air conditioning<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Underfloor_air_distribution\">underfloor air distribution<\/a> &#8211; UFAD).<\/p>\n<p>Opened in 2008, Bendigo Centre is claimed to have half the energy consumption of a typical office building of its size, and was the first 5-Star Green Star building in regional Australia.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Our Bank\u2019s fundamental purpose is to help customers and communities to succeed by securing prosperous futures,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bendigobank.com.au\/media-centre\/bendigo-centre-set-to-soak-up-the-sun-with-new-solar-panels\/\">said<\/a> Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Managing Director Marnie Baker. &#8220;In recent years the expectations of customers and investors have evolved to the point where they want to see how the Bank is contributing to a more sustainable future as well.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Bendigo\/Adelaide Bank: Emissions &amp; Renewable Energy<\/h2>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first solar system for a Bendigo\/Adelaide Bank building &#8211; at least 31 branches across Australia now have panels, with additional installations to occur this year.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation has committed to reduce absolute emissions by 50% by 2030 and purchase 100% renewable energy by 2025. In terms of fossil fuel exposure, it does not lend directly to projects in the coal, coal seam gas, crude oil or natural gas sectors, &#8220;and will not start to do so&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketforces.org.au\/info\/compare-bank-table\/\">MarketForces<\/a>, which engages in activism to compel banks, superannuation and insurance firms to get their snouts of the fossil fuel trough (among other things) notes the organisations have no record of funding fossil fuel since 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Bendigo Bank has supported community groups with grants to help them go solar, among them Dunsborough Primary School in Western Australia\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/dunsborough-solar-power-mb0585\/\">back in 2018<\/a>. It has also provided funding to larger community renewable energy projects such as Hepburn Wind and Warburton Hydro.<\/p>\n<p>Bendigo&#8217;s association with Tindo goes beyond this recent installation. It has also partnered with Tindo to provide access to staff discounts on solar panels and batteries, and financed Tindo Solar\u2019s new $11.5 million factory in Adelaide &#8211; which should start production pretty soon. SolarQuotes Founder Finn Peacock <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/tindo-solar-factory-mb2281\/\">checked out the new factory<\/a> back in November as part of SolarQuotes TV <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/australian-solar-sqtv11-mb2272\/\">Episode 11: The Australian-Made Solar Edition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tindo Solar panels are currently listed as SQ-approved brand. On a related note, learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/\">finding the best solar panels<\/a> for your home&#8217;s rooftop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bendigo Bank&#8217;s national headquarters in Victoria is sporting rooftop solar panels manufactured across the border in South Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":58410,"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-58409","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>Bendigo Bank Chooses Australian-Made Solar Panels For HQ<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bendigo Bank&#039;s national headquarters in Victoria is sporting rooftop solar panels manufactured across the border in South Australia.\" \/>\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\/bendigo-bank-solar-mb2334\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bendigo Bank Chooses Australian-Made Solar Panels For HQ\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bendigo Bank&#039;s national headquarters in Victoria is sporting rooftop solar panels manufactured across the border in South Australia.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/bendigo-bank-solar-mb2334\/\" \/>\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=\"2022-01-30T18:46:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-12-18T04:48:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bendigo-bank-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\/bendigo-bank-solar-mb2334\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/bendigo-bank-solar-mb2334\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"Bendigo Bank Chooses Australian-Made Solar Panels For HQ\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-01-30T18:46:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-12-18T04:48:26+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/bendigo-bank-solar-mb2334\/\"},\"wordCount\":531,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/bendigo-bank-solar-mb2334\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bendigo-bank-solar.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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