15. Brimbank Bicycle

Project 15: Brimbank Bicycle Education Centre, Vic

Brimbank Bicycle provides Road Safety Education and Learn to Ride Programs for Pre-School and Primary Schools three days a week. They also conduct these programs for community groups such as scouts and guides on weekday evenings and at weekends. They conduct Riding Programs for the disabled with a fleet of special needs trikes and bikes on two days a week, and at weekends the facility is hired by families and other community groups for birthday parties and other functions. In total, between 400 and 500 people use the centre each week.
www.brimbankbicycleed.com

Project story…

It was difficult to calculate the exact dollar savings for this project because the solar PV H/W is adding hot water availability that wasn’t previously there and will be using excess solar PV generation to heat the water. However, the Brimbank Board offered to repay this loan in 5 years, with quarterly repayments of $550, even though it is unlikely they will actually save that much each quarter. Either way they are delighted to have our loan to make this project possible because they are aiming at setting a good example to their community.

See what has been achieved via the CORENA loan to Brimbank Bicycle so far

* The MWh figure is the amount of grid electricity avoided by solar electricity generation and energy efficiency measures. The resultant reductions in carbon emissions can be visualised as an equivalent number of average households switching from grid electricity to 100% renewable electricity, noting that the subsequent projects have been avoiding grid electricity for less time than the original project.

This project has been fully funded- Thank you!

Honour roll

Thanks to all the people who have donated to this project.

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