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Meet sustainability goals and power energy independence for your community. Leverage our free Council Toolkit for Community Solar Programs, created in collaboration with the City of Mitcham, for seamless implementation.
Our proven Community Solar Program model is designed to help you transform your council’s energy infrastructure and achieve your sustainability goals by facilitating solar and battery adoption at scale.
Adopt the only end-to-end flexible solution for Councils that includes:
Our proven Community Solar Program model is designed to help you transform your council’s energy infrastructure and achieve your sustainability goals by facilitating solar and battery adoption at scale.
Adopt the only end-to-end flexible solution for Councils that includes:
Offer residents solar panels, battery retrofits, and combo panel + battery systems at a discount to make it easier and more affordable to install them. We will build the program in partnership with you and manage it from start to finish. From package design, marketing, event management, and sales, to implementation and aftercare we’ve got all bases covered.
Councils also have the opportunity to support those residents who are unable to install solar through the installation of large community batteries in local parks. Each community battery project is designed with ease-of-approval in mind, targeting return-on-investment (ROI) in less than 10 years with no increases to rates.
Through the installation of solar, battery storage and VPP across your building fleet and combining the green energy produced from these assets, your Council could harness the collective energy produced to power essential services such as streetlights, public buildings, and critical infrastructure such as irrigation pumps and traffic lights.
By installing EV charge points around the community powered by local solar panel and battery installations at car parks, shopping centres, and council buildings you can power your own fleet of electric vehicles, employee vehicles and even offer EV charging services to your residents.
Our free Council Toolkit for Community Solar Programs – developed in partnership with the City of Mitcham Council – contains everything you need to get your program up and running without reinventing the wheel. Get all the process, compliance, governance and program documentation in one comprehensive toolkit.
When the community leaders in the City of Mitcham in South Australia decided to deliver against the vision of a city powered by renewable energy and help local ratepayers avoid rolling blackouts and rising power prices, they chose to partner with ShineHub to launch the Community Renewables Program in 2022.
Now in its fourth year, the City of Mitcham CRP continues to lead the way in community-driven renewable energy with the help of ShineHub. From the start the aim of the (CRP) was to reduce carbon emissions, accelerate renewable energy adoption, and help residents lower their energy bills amid rising energy costs and cost of living pressures.
The CRP is an Australian-first initiative, cementing the City Mitcham as a leader in driving community-led renewable energy solutions and partnering with the private sector to offer residents the opportunity to adopt affordable panel, battery and Virtual Power Plant Solutions.
The program kicked off in 2022 with the launch of a residential solar bulk buy designed to offer Mitcham Council Residents access to affordable solar solutions with a trusted partner.
Now in its fourth year the results have been astounding.
Right from the start the program was developed to be a low cost to Council with minimal funds being diverted to launch and run the program. Working together with the Council team, ShineHub was able to leverage experience running bulk buys in the open market, as well as set up, administer and run the program of marketing and solar bulk buy community events, sales and after sales care required to scale and make the program an ongoing success.
Right from the start the program was developed to be a low cost to Council with minimal funds being diverted to launch and run the program. Working together with the Council team, ShineHub was able to leverage experience running bulk buys in the open market, as well as set up, administer and run the program of marketing and solar bulk buy community events, sales and after sales care required to scale and make the program an ongoing success.
The City of Mitcham’s decision to partner with ShineHub was not taken lightly. We were chosen after a comprehensive tender process where both Council and external advisory parties reviewed all tender documentation and proposals. This included thorough legal, compliance and governance reviews as well as an extensive deep dive into our finances. It’s on this extensive work that our toolkit for Council programs is based, allowing other councils to fast follow in Mitcham’s footsteps.
The City of Mitcham’s decision to partner with ShineHub was not taken lightly. We were chosen after a comprehensive tender process where both Council and external advisory parties reviewed all tender documentation and proposals. This included thorough legal, compliance and governance reviews as well as an extensive deep dive into our finances. It’s on this extensive work that our toolkit for Council programs is based, allowing other councils to fast follow in Mitcham’s footsteps.
Simply complete the contact form to get access to the free Council Toolkit for Community Solar Programs. We’ll be in contact to discuss ways to bring this program to your community.
Simply complete the contact form to get access to the free Council Toolkit for Community Solar Programs. We’ll be in contact to discuss ways to bring this program to your community.
Simply complete the contact form to get access to the free Council Toolkit for Community Solar Programs
One of our consultants will be in contact to discuss ways to bring this program to your community.
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