Saturday, September 27, 2014

'Payback' criticised on hub's solar plan

The installation of a solar system on the consist of Shellharbour City Hub building is actually "not financially attractive", according to Shellharbour City Council staff, as the "payback" period would be 14 years.

An artist's impression of the proposed Shellharbour For city drive Hub.

The installation of a solar powered system close to proposed Shellharbour City Hub making is "not financially attractive", much like Shellharbour City Council staff, just like the "payback" period would be 14 years.

While plans for the Shellharbour City Mainstay building were released in June, Crystal reports Kellie Marsh criticised them female absence of solar power.

At the time, the local authority or council said that the building included enough "environmentally friendly features", such as passive concept and water-saving devices, to enable doing it to achieve a five-star rating by the Green Building Council of The melbourne area.

On Tuesday night, Shellharbour councillors will be presented with a report that in the form the costs and benefits of installing solar power panels, based on the "expert opinion" of services WSP Built Ecology.

The comment said the maximum size of a photo array - 480 square metre distances - would cost $171, thousand and reduce carbon emissions by just about 123, 500 kilograms CO2.

"The addition of a solar photovoltaic cellphone system is not necessary for council to obtain the project objectives, " the comment said. "Further, the payback length of 14 years for the photovoltaic system is certainly not financially attractive. "

As the expense of the City Hub project - supply estimated at $57 million tutorial was a "sensitive and important factor about council", it might be prudent to get ready for further design development for more truthfulness over the project's costs before each decision on solar power was made, ones report said.

The project mannschaft had not ruled out solar power and should still be investigating alternative methods of funding just like for example power-purchasing agreements.

Cr Peter Moran, who had called for the report everything from staff, described it as "half one specific response".

"I feel staff are looking for everything through the prism of a five-star rating, " Cr Moran referred to.

"The building achieves that, it also doesn't mean we can't transcend that. "

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