{"id":63397,"date":"2022-07-13T06:19:10","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T19:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=63397"},"modified":"2022-07-13T06:19:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T19:49:10","slug":"dubbo-second-life-solar-mb2551","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/dubbo-second-life-solar-mb2551\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubbo Council Leads With Second-Life Solar Panels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63398\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/dubbo-2nd-life-solar.jpg\" alt=\"Second-hand solar panels - Dubbo Regional Council\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/dubbo-2nd-life-solar.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/dubbo-2nd-life-solar-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/dubbo-2nd-life-solar-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/dubbo-2nd-life-solar-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pre-loved solar panels are continuing their service lives on the rooftop of a Dubbo Regional Council building.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Rooftop solar is a growing source of waste &#8211; but some discarded panels will have many good years left in them. These still serviceable panels often wind up unwanted as a result of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/systems\/upgrade\/\">solar system upgrades<\/a>; or full systems being replaced for whatever reason.<\/p>\n<p>In November last year, Dubbo Regional Council (DRC) was chosen to participate in a pilot project funded under NSW&#8217;s Circular Solar Grants program. The initiative was looking to give serviceable solar panels that may have otherwise ended up in landfill a second life.<\/p>\n<p>Council&#8217;s main role in the project is hosting the system comprised of second-hand solar panels that have been installed &#8211; quite fittingly &#8211; on the Small Vehicle Receival Centre at the Whylandra Waste and Recycling Centre. The 8kW installation was completed last month.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBy participating in this trial, we are boosting the service life of solar panels, and increasing the uptake of renewable energy, helping to meet Council\u2019s 50% renewable energy target,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dubbo.nsw.gov.au\/news-and-media\/news-and-resources\/media-releases\/2022\/waste-not-want-not-dubbo-leads-circular-economy-for-solar-panels\">said<\/a> Council&#8217;s Manager Resource Recovery &amp; Efficiency, John Wisniewski.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>DRC also has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/dubbo-council-solar-mb2067\/\"> other PV installations<\/a>, some including Australian-made panels.<\/p>\n<h2>Small-scale PV Popular In Dubbo<\/h2>\n<p>Mr. Wisniewski says Dubbo is the second largest installer of small-scale systems in New South Wales.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;So if we can find extended uses for our solar panels, we\u2019ll be reducing our overall environmental footprint.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/location\/dubbo-2830-nsw\/\">Dubbo, solar panels<\/a> are certainly a common sight. As at the end of May this year more than 9,513 small-scale (&lt;100kW) solar power systems had been installed in the 2830 postcode, with a collective capacity of around\u00a0 47.7MW. Given a population of 40,580, this works out to 1,175 watts per person compared to a 732 watts Australian per capita total.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbo Regional Council hopes that through its participation in this trial that one day residents will be able to reuse unwanted panels on their own homes or businesses. On a related note, there&#8217;s also a lot of work being done elsewhere on developing standards and certification to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/second-hand-solar-australia-mb2478\/\"> support a local second-hand solar panel market<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>James McGregor from the Blue Tribe Company &#8211; which is running the project in partnership with Solar Professionals and the NSW Office of Energy and Climate Change &#8211; said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We couldn\u2019t think of a better place to trial this than at DRC\u2019s Whylandra Waste and Recycling Centre in the heart of one of the leading solar communities in Australia.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Councils across Australia have played an important role in promoting solar energy uptake, often walking the talk by installing panels on their own assets. It&#8217;s great to see a local government also pioneering in utilising second-life solar here.<\/p>\n<p>The NSW Government created the $10 million Circular Solar grants program in an effort to find better ways of tackling how PV waste is handled. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-panel-battery-waste-mb2167\/\"> Phase 1 of the program<\/a> awarded\u00a0 $2.1 million in funding for two projects last year, and Phase 2 saw $7.4 million for five projects; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/nsw-circular-solar-mb2530\/\">announced last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Related:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/installers\/cities\/dubbo\/\">(Good) Solar Installers In Dubbo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pre-loved solar panels are continuing their service lives on the rooftop of a Dubbo Regional Council building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":63398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63397","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 v28.5 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dubbo Council Leads With Second-Life Solar Panels - SolarQuotes Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Pre-loved solar panels are continuing their service lives on the rooftop of a Dubbo Regional Council building.\" \/>\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\/dubbo-second-life-solar-mb2551\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dubbo Council Leads With Second-Life Solar Panels\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pre-loved solar panels are continuing their service lives on the rooftop of a Dubbo Regional Council building.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/dubbo-second-life-solar-mb2551\/\" \/>\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=\"2022-07-12T19:49:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/dubbo-2nd-life-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\\\/dubbo-second-life-solar-mb2551\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/dubbo-second-life-solar-mb2551\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"Dubbo Council Leads With Second-Life Solar Panels\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-07-12T19:49:10+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/dubbo-second-life-solar-mb2551\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":510,\"commentCount\":3,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/dubbo-second-life-solar-mb2551\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/07\\\/dubbo-2nd-life-solar.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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