Renew helps Indigenous community in WA go solar

Part of the solar system at Kurrawang (Source: Renew)

A solar project jointly set up by Renew and an Indigenous community in Western Australia three years ago is benefiting households and cutting greenhouse emissions. The 139-panel solar system is set up on a workshop and machinery shed at the Kurrawang Aboriginal Christian Community near Kalgoorlie. Renew is a not-for-profit organisation which aids and inspires sustainable living.

Renew member, Robin Gardner, said “The savings are averaging, since start up, at 4550 kilowatt hours a month. The system generally supplies almost all the power needs of the community during the middle of the day for the 25 houses, school and workshop, and returns less than 5% to the grid.”

“To the 6th of December, the system had generated 145,584 kilowatt hours of electricity, which has resulted in the saving of 145 tonnes of carbon dioxide or the equivalent of removing 42 cars from the road for a year.”

Read more: Kurrawang: solar success. Renew, January 31, 2019.