Adelaide aims to be solar city of the future

We’ve installed solar panels on government buildings on North Terrace, including Parliament House, the Art Gallery, the SA Museum and the State Library, and on Gilles Street Primary School – one of more than 250 schools to be getting solar power. We’re going to continue that solar roll-out, funding the installation of panels on the new Adelaide Airport, and Adelaide has been named one of the nation’s “Solar Cities of the Future”.

And solar installations are part of the Adelaide landscape with solar lights installed in Victoria Square generating electricity during the day, and lighting up Adelaide’s first sustainable square at night. And similar lights are popping up around the city on Halifax St and the East Parklands. Adelaide is also going to play host to the International Solar Cities Congress in 2008. We’re doing more to harness the wind, too, installing mini wind turbines on government buildings to take advantage of the wind-tunnel effect.

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