Custance Centre electrification

Student housing in the Roseworthy Custance Centre has transitioned to all-electric operations to reduce carbon emissions.

Roseworthy Custance Centre Solar Panels

Custance Centre student accommodation at the Roseworthy campus encompasses 26 single-storey furnished houses built in 1978. The Centre was selected as a suitable site for an emission reduction project aligned with the University’s Sustainability Strategy 2030 – Here For Good, building on previous solar projects at Roseworthy, which have reduced peak electricity demand and energy costs, and increased the resilience of supply to the campus. 

Project overview

  • Location: Custance Centre student accommodation, Roseworthy Campus
  • Cost: $320k
  • Consulting engineers: Energy Project
  • Construction partner: Sarah Constructions
  • Project Team: Aiden Moon, Mark Branson, David Purdie, Alan Hall, Vikram Kenjile

Features

  • Eighteen LPG hot water tanks have been replaced with energy efficient 400L heat pump hot water systems.
  • Fourteen rooftops will have a total of 78kW of solar PV installed, which is expected to generate around 100MWh of solar power per year, equivalent to 50% of the annual Custance area electricity usage.

Completed July 2024.

Custance Centre solar panels