Project 8: Moss Vale Community Garden, NSW
Moss Vale Community Garden (NSW) is a place where the community can gather to grow and share healthy food whilst developing supportive friendships. The community garden aims include being a demonstration site for sustainable technologies relating to building materials, energy & water capture and use as well as diverse, permaculture & organic food production strategies.
https://www.facebook.com/MossValeCommunityGarden
Project story…
This was CORENA’s first off-grid solar installation. The community garden had no electricity on site, so this installation enabled them to expand their activities and to function as a demonstration site for cost-effective off-grid power using gel batteries.
Regional partner CANWin instigated and assisted with this project.
Manuel Cilia of Cilectric carefully designed an off-grid system to suit the needs of the community garden and donated his time to install it.
See what has been achieved via the CORENA loan to Moss Vale Community Garden 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.
Huge thank you to Embark for matching contributions from new donors (from Oct 15).
This project has been fully funded- Thank you!
Honour roll
Thanks to all the people who have donated to this project.
Work details
– 12 x Suntech STP250/20/WD-SPC 250w polypanel panels (3kw)
– Clenergy Solar railing and earthing system to suit
– Solar conduit and dc cabling
– 1 x SMA 3000TL-21
– 1 x SMA sunny island 4.4kw inverter/charger
– 8 x hoppecke 6v 250amp/h gel batteries
– Cabinets to house batteries
Cost: $8,498.20 ($6,000 loan from CORENA, with the remainder paid by the community garden)
Expected savings: 4,380kWh/yr. Since there was no power at the site previously and therefore no savings on electricity bills, loan repayments were set to enable the 5-year payback time that is typical of other projects.
Projects menu
All projects
1. Tulgeen
2. Gawler
3. Beechworth
4. Camden
5. Nannup
6. Ravenshoe
7. Warradale
8. Moss Vale
9. Pegasus
10. Parkholme LED
11. Greenbushes
12. Yack Health
13. Kulchajam
14. Tastex
15. Brimbank
16. Enova
17. Albert L-T
18. Trish L-T
19. Coast FM transmitter
20. Apprenticeships Q
21. Mansfield Kindergarten
22. Frances L-T
23. Clunes Old School
24. Coast FM studio
25. Sonia L-T
26. Peacemakers
27. CERES
28. Engadine
29. Kuranda
30. Marlin Coast
31. Uralba
32. Club Italia
33. Clunes Coronation
34. Woden Valley
35. Woonona Bulli
36. Coorabell Hall
37. Ballina-Byron
38. Robert Menzies College
39. Tarremah
40. Abbeyfield
41. Geelong Bowls
42. Walpole
43. Parkholme solar
44. CC Steiner School
45. Fair Food
46. Merriwa
47. Murray Mallee
48. Lockington
49. Mary Knoll
50. AnglicareSA
51. Manjimup
Coming soon
First getting off gas project