Thursday 10/4/2008 Page: 11
HERE comes the sun: straight into solar panels on top of Ergon Energy's Lake St headquarters and back onto the grid. The power company says the two kilowatt grid-connected solar power system, installed yesterday, is the first of its kind for a regional electricity distributor. "What happens is if we are producing more than we use, then we export the excess into the grid," Ergon's Gaylene Whenmouth said."Otherwise we're consuming the power ourselves." The solar panels generate up to 10 kilowatt hours of electricity a day and Ergon hopes to see more sprout on CBD roof tops. "We want to show people how easy it is to do it," Ms Whenmouth said. "Every kilowatt hour of electricity produced by solar is a kilowatt hour we don't have to produce through coal fired generation and one tonne of carbon dioxide less going into the atmosphere."
You can see carbon saving data from the panels online at www.sunnyportal.com.
Click the link to Publicly Available Plants and search for the Lake St site by country and postcode.
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