{"id":71574,"date":"2023-02-23T06:49:20","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T20:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=71574"},"modified":"2023-02-23T06:49:20","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T20:19:20","slug":"casey-climate-action-mb2838","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/casey-climate-action-mb2838\/","title":{"rendered":"City Of Casey Adopts Climate Action Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/casey-climate-solar.jpg\" alt=\"City of Casey - solar energy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Victoria&#8217;s City of Casey has adopted a plan to guide Council towards achieving net zero corporate emissions by 2030 and support a community-wide target of net zero emissions by 2040.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The City of Casey is located in Melbourne&#8217;s south-eastern suburbs and is home to more than 369,000 residents living in suburbs including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/location\/cranbourne-3977-vic\/\">Cranbourne<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/location\/narre-warren-3805-vic\/\">Narre Warren<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/location\/berwick-3806-vic\/\">Berwick<\/a>. It&#8217;s a big area, with a big population, so that means a significant emissions footprint. Total municipal emissions in 2020\/21 <a href=\"https:\/\/snapshotclimate.com.au\/locality\/municipality\/australia\/victoria\/casey\/\">have been estimated at<\/a> 2,400,000 tCO2e<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/casey-climate-action-mb2838\/#en-71574-1' id='enref-71574-1' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(71574)'>1<\/a><\/sup>. Electricity comprised 54% of that total, gas 12%, transport 21% and waste, 5%.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, Council consulted the Casey community to gain feedback on actions residents wanted prioritised in a Climate Action Plan.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Climate change will impact everyone; therefore, it is up to all of us to help reduce our carbon emissions,&#8221; stated Council.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The resulting and now adopted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casey.vic.gov.au\/sites\/default\/files\/2023-02\/Climate%20Action%20Plan-%20City%20of%20Casey%202022-2030.pdf\"> Climate Action Plan 2022-2030<\/a> has been grouped into six themes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Energy Efficient Buildings<\/li>\n<li>Renewable Energy<\/li>\n<li>Transport<\/li>\n<li>Circular Economy<\/li>\n<li>Sustainable Land Use and Planning<\/li>\n<li>Education and Empowerment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Renewable Energy In City Of Casey<\/h2>\n<p>There&#8217;s already been a lot of activity in the local government area on the renewable energy front. Small-scale <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/solar101.html\">solar power systems<\/a> have been popular, with an estimated 36.5% of freestanding and semi-detached dwellings sporting solar panels (Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/pv-map.apvi.org.au\/historical#11\/-38.0773\/145.3244\">APVI<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>On Council&#8217;s side of things, City of Casey committed to a 9.5 year power purchase agreement (PPA) in 2020 involving wind power supplying streetlights in the LGA. Council also appears to have installed a significant amount of rooftop solar on its various assets<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/casey-climate-action-mb2838\/#en-71574-2' id='enref-71574-2' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(71574)'>2<\/a><\/sup> and all new Council buildings are fitted with solar systems.<\/p>\n<p>One of the major actions identified in the Climate Action Plan is a <a href=\"https:\/\/conversations.casey.vic.gov.au\/cranbourne-solar-farm\"> 5 megawatt solar farm project<\/a> at the site of the Old Casey Landfill, which is to supply Council with clean electricity. This initiative has seen some delays and now has a start date of 2024\/25 noted in the plan.<\/p>\n<p>Among other actions in the plan relating to renewables:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Installing a 5kW wind turbine at Myuna Farm.<\/li>\n<li>Trialing battery smart load shifting.<\/li>\n<li>An additional 332kW of rooftop solar on Council facilities over three years.<\/li>\n<li>Investigating a rooftop solar rent-to-buy or PPA program with council leased community and sporting club facilities.<\/li>\n<li>Identifying opportunities for community solar farms (10MW in total).<\/li>\n<li>Investigating financial mechanisms supporting community investment in renewables and energy efficiency.<\/li>\n<li>Investigating a rent-to-buy rooftop solar program for small to medium enterprises.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On a related note, City of Casey has also made significant inroads on EV adoption; with thirteen battery electric vehicles in its fleet as at the end of last year, plus eighteen hybrids. Furthermore, it has three electric hard rubbish trucks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCouncil already has a strong record on reducing greenhouse gas emissions through improvements in energy efficiency and investment in renewable technology,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casey.vic.gov.au\/news\/council-adopts-climate-action-plan-path-reduce-emissions\">said<\/a> City of Casey Chair of Administrators, Noelene Duff PSM. &#8220;This new plan will ensure this work continues and that we meet out targets for net zero emissions and renewable energy supplies.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria&#8217;s City of Casey has adopted a plan to guide Council towards achieving net zero corporate emissions by 2030 and support a community-wide target of net zero emissions by 2040.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":71575,"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-71574","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>City Of Casey Adopts Climate Action Plan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Victoria&#039;s City of Casey adopts plan to guide Council towards achieving net zero corporate emissions and support a community-wide target.\" \/>\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\/casey-climate-action-mb2838\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"City Of Casey Adopts Climate Action Plan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Victoria&#039;s City of Casey adopts plan to guide Council towards achieving net zero corporate emissions and support a community-wide target.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/casey-climate-action-mb2838\/\" \/>\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=\"2023-02-22T20:19:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/casey-climate-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\/casey-climate-action-mb2838\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/casey-climate-action-mb2838\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"City Of Casey Adopts Climate Action Plan\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-02-22T20:19:20+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/casey-climate-action-mb2838\/\"},\"wordCount\":511,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/casey-climate-action-mb2838\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/casey-climate-solar.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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