Agenda - Byron Shire Council - NSW Government
Agenda - Byron Shire Council - NSW Government
Agenda - Byron Shire Council - NSW Government
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BYRON SHIRE COUNCIL<br />
ORDINARY MEETING 9 MAY 2013 (10)<br />
5<br />
10<br />
15<br />
20<br />
25<br />
Mr Richard Turner, Founder, Zen Home<br />
Energy Systems, shared his company’s<br />
successes in rolling out Affordable<br />
Community Solar Programs. The solar take<br />
up in host town Victor Harbor was around<br />
40%! This is clearly a system from which we<br />
could learn, using our own local providers.<br />
Victor Harbor provided a few ideas itself.<br />
We viewed an example of a hybrid solar and<br />
wind light, which has the capacity to be an<br />
electric car-refuelling stop also.<br />
Lastly, in Victor Harbor, we saw ‘Beyond<br />
Display Village,’ an award winning<br />
sustainable development, the most energy<br />
efficient housing development in Australia<br />
and a great example for our developers to<br />
aspire. The Beyond team have produced<br />
easy to understand design guidelines<br />
covering: orientation to winter sun, optimal<br />
placement of windows for light, winter<br />
warmth and summer breezes, external<br />
shading for summer coolness, zero<br />
overshadowing from neighbours,<br />
indoor/outdoor living area linkage, solar hot water supply, solar energy supply, thermal mass for<br />
heat conduction, materials with lowest toxicity and lowest environmental impact and rainwater<br />
harvesting. They have house and land packages from $390,000. (http://www.beyondtoday.com.au)<br />
Ordinary Meeting <strong>Agenda</strong> 09/05/13
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