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Small solar power thriving in Australia – the top 10 solar postcodes

Australia’s Top 10 Small Scale Solar Power System Postcodes, by Energy Matters, 21 Nov 11 Over half a million small scale solar power systems are now installed around Australia, adding up to more than a million kilowatts of solar electricity generation capacity. Is your postcode among the top ten for solar in the country?

In May this year we reported on Australia’s top solar towns and suburbs in terms of system installations as a percentage of households.  We’ve compiled the following new top 10 list based on figures extracted from data recently released by the Office Of The Renewable Energy Regulator (ORER), showing the Australian postcodes with the largest numbers of small scale solar energy systems* installed.

The top 10 small scale solar power Australian postcodes as of September 2011 are (in descending order of number of systems installed):

1. Postcode 6210 – Western Australia – 3,643 systems – 6,270.317 kW capacity

Postcode 6210 incorporates Coodanup, Dudley Park, Erskine, Falcon, Greenfields, Halls Head, Madorah Bay, Mandurah (+ DC, East and North), Meadows Springs, San Remo, Silver Sands and Wannanup.

2. Postcode 4551 – Queensland – 3,184 systems – 5,545.973 kW capacity

Postcode 4551 incorporates Aroona, Battery Hill, Bells Creek, Caloundra (+ BC, DC and West), Currimundi, Dicky Beach, Golden Beach, Kings Beach, Little Mountain, Meridan Plains, Moffat Beach, Pelican Waters and Shelly Beach)

3. Postcode 2830 – New South Wales – 3,141 systems – 5,672.010 kW capacity

Postcode 2830 incorporates Ballimore, Barbigal, Beni, Boothenba, Brocklehurst, Bruah, Bunglegumbie, Burrabadine, Butler Falls, CoolBaggie, Cumboogle, Dubbo (+DC, Grove, East and West), Eschol, EuloMogo, Glengerra and Goonoo Forest.

4. Postcode 4655 – Queensland – 3,036 systems – 6,243.677 kW capacity…….

http://www.energymatters.com.au/index.php?main_page=news_article&article_id=1886

November 21, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, solar | solar