I have searched high and low on my local council website and cannot find anything about energy. Not finding anything I searched a few more local council websites and came out empty. It seems to me to be a bit strange that despite the Victorian Government making commitments to renewable energy targets that there seems to be little that local councils are going.
Would it not be logical for local councils who have plenty of roof space to make investments and show a good example even if it was on a small scale. Increasing the generation of renewable energy needs to holistic approach . At present, the framework appears to be left pretty much to the utility companies and private individuals and businesses.
Local and state governments seem to be conspicuously absent from the scene. Surely all the heating and lighting requirements of government buildings and libraries would be a logical candidate. After all if we are trying to encourage private residential owners to install solar panels why would the same not apply to government buildings. I can only image that the energy bills are as costly for a government building as it is for a private residence.
And the same goes for schools and other institutions of learning. All these buildings need to be lit and heated whether by gas or otherwise. And most of these buildings are occupied during the day time which would make it more meaningful in terms of energy and cost per head.
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