Renewable Energy

The University has reduced carbon emissions by installing thousands of solar panels on rooftops across our campuses, as well as a ground-mounted solar farm at the Roseworthy Campus.

Roseworthy solar farm ground-mounted panels

Solar panels are generating electricity during the day and reducing reliance on the energy grid.

Rooftop solar

Overview

  • Total kW of renewable energy installed on campus: 1,870
  • Cost: $7.52 million
  • Lifetime savings: $11.8 million
  • Lifetime energy savings: 171,117 GJ
  • Lifetime GHG emission reduction: 23,353 tonnes CO2-e
  • Average payback period: 6.3 years

  • Installation summary
    Campus Building Solar System Capacity
    North Terrace Engineering South 75kW
      Barr Smith South 99kW
      Ingkarni Wardli 30kW
      Kenneth Wills 60kW
    Waite Charles Hawker 82kW
      Wine Innovation 178kW
      Davies 44kW
    Roseworthy College Hall 29kW
      Equine Centre 30kW
      Vet School 30kW
      Solar Farm 1200kW

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Roseworthy solar farm and energy storage

The Roseworthy Solar Farm and battery system is generating 42% of the campus's energy needs, reducing peak electricity demand and increasing the resilience of energy supply.

The 1.2MW farm includes 3,200 solar panels that charge a hybrid battery storage solution – a combination of Tesla lithium-ion batteries and UniEnergy Technologies (UET) Vanadium flow batteries.

Overview

  • Location: Roseworthy campus
  • Number of solar panels: 3,200
  • Lifetime GHG emission reduction: 15,524 tonnes CO2-e