Blueprint for the future: Australia's first town to go emissions-free

By Saffron Howden
Updated October 6 2015 - 11:13am, first published 10:53am
Uralla, Australia's first town to go emissions-free Photo: supplied
Uralla, Australia's first town to go emissions-free Photo: supplied
Uralla, Australia's first town to go emissions-free Photo: supplied
Uralla, Australia's first town to go emissions-free Photo: supplied
Uralla, Australia's first town to go emissions-free Photo: supplied
Uralla, Australia's first town to go emissions-free Photo: supplied
Uralla, Australia's first town to go emissions-free Photo: supplied
Uralla, Australia's first town to go emissions-free Photo: supplied

A NSW country shire is laying the foundations for an emissions-free future as people across Australia increasingly look for ways to reduce community reliance on the grid by starting their own, locally-owned, wind and solar farms.

 
Uralla energy use now (click arrow)
  • 49 per cent electricity – 25,000 MegaWatt hours (MWh) a year; 75 per cent of this is household use.
  • 45 per cent  firewood - 5150 tonnes of firewood burned for heating each year, or three tonnes per household.
  • 6 per cent  - bottled gas.
  • A total of $12 million is spent on energy each year.
 

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