{"id":61893,"date":"2022-05-17T08:09:23","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T21:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=61893"},"modified":"2022-05-17T08:11:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T21:41:44","slug":"solar-panels-tonsley-mb2476","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-panels-tonsley-mb2476\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands Of Solar Panels Airlifted Onto Tonsley Rooftops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61894\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/tonsley-solar-panels.jpg\" alt=\"Solar panel airlift - Tonsley, Adelaide\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/tonsley-solar-panels.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/tonsley-solar-panels-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/tonsley-solar-panels-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/tonsley-solar-panels-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2,000 solar panels were recently airlifted by helicopter onto the roofs of Renewal SA\u2019s Line Zero building and TAFA SA\u2019s campus in Adelaide&#8217;s Tonsley Innovation District.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In what turned out to be a 10-hour exercise, 80 pallets of solar panels weighing up to 800kg each started making their way onto the rooftops from 6.30am on Saturday, May 7. The lifts were carried out by Adelaide&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aerotech.net.au\/\">Aerotech<\/a>, which among other activities provides heavy lift aerial crane operations for significant construction projects.<\/p>\n<p>The solar panels are part of a Stage 2 PV installation at Tonsley Innovation District, increasing its solar power capacity to 5 megawatts.<\/p>\n<p>Combined with the existing solar panels already in place atop the Main Assembly Building (MAB)<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-panels-tonsley-mb2476\/#en-61893-1' id='enref-61893-1' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(61893)'>1<\/a><\/sup>, addition of the new capacity will collectively generate up to 80% of Tonsley\u2019s energy demand according to Todd Perry, General Manager of Project Delivery and Property at Renewal SA.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cTonsley has demonstrated a strong commitment to sustainable and innovative outcomes since its inception,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/tonsley.com.au\/news\/helicopter-transports-2000-solar-panels-onto-roof\/\">said Mr. Perry<\/a>. \u201cThe District Energy Scheme is a great example of that commitment because it gives businesses within the district surety and access to reliable, renewable energy at a cheaper rate without having to rely on supply from the national electricity grid.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Located around 11 kilometres south of the heart of Adelaide, in a previous life Tonsley Innovation District was the home of Chrysler Australia&#8217;s automotive manufacturing. Mitsubishi Motors purchased the site in the 1980&#8217;s and shuttered operations there in 2008. In 2010, the South\u00a0 Australian Government purchased the 61-hectare site, with the intention of creating a smart technology mixed-use precinct and residential development.<\/p>\n<h2>10MW Battery On The Way For Tonsley<\/h2>\n<p>Today, Tonsley Innovation District hosts dozens of businesses and organisations, with significant representation from the cleantech and renewable energy sectors. Among the firms with a presence there are Tesla and CleanPeak Energy; the latter responsible for delivering Tonsley&#8217;s District Energy Scheme.<\/p>\n<p>CleanPeak Energy has committed further funding to install a 10-Megawatt battery at Tonsley to soak up surplus solar energy generated for use outside the &#8220;solar window&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOnce finished, the integrated solar and battery system will allow the world class Tonsley Innovation District to be supplied by 100% renewable energy,&#8221; said CleanPeak Energy CEO Phillip Graham.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When done and dusted, Tonsley is expected to host 13,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/\">solar panels<\/a>, 34 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/inverters\/\">solar inverters<\/a>, the 10MW battery system and more than 15 kilometres of electrical cabling installed as part of the District Energy Scheme. 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Flinders&#8217; Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Impact) <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/aiti\/2022\/05\/11\/10m-pledge-for-jobs-of-the-future\/\"> Professor John Spoehr said<\/a> the funding would help generate some 800 secure jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2,000 solar panels were recently airlifted by helicopter onto the roofs of Renewal SA\u2019s Line Zero building and TAFA SA\u2019s campus in Adelaide&#8217;s Tonsley Innovation District.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":61894,"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-61893","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>Thousands Of Solar Panels Airlifted Onto Tonsley Rooftops<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"2,000 solar panels were recently airlifted by helicopter onto the roofs of two buildings in Adelaide&#039;s Tonsley Innovation District.\" \/>\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-panels-tonsley-mb2476\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thousands Of Solar Panels Airlifted Onto Tonsley Rooftops\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"2,000 solar panels were recently airlifted by helicopter onto the roofs of two buildings in Adelaide&#039;s Tonsley Innovation District.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-panels-tonsley-mb2476\/\" \/>\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=\"2022-05-16T21:39:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-05-16T21:41:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/tonsley-solar-panels.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-panels-tonsley-mb2476\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-panels-tonsley-mb2476\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"Thousands Of Solar Panels Airlifted Onto Tonsley Rooftops\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-05-16T21:39:23+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-05-16T21:41:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-panels-tonsley-mb2476\/\"},\"wordCount\":494,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-panels-tonsley-mb2476\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/tonsley-solar-panels.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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