Last update: 2025-12-31
Figures are estimated based on available data.
See footnotes for details of data sources, terminology and analysis.
Residential installations: 3,456
Commercial installations: 122
Power stations: 0
Number of houses in LGA: 6,353
Installed residential capacity: 16,922 kW
Total installed capacity: 20,027 kW
Average annual kWh generated per kW installed: 1,280 kWh/kW
For all households with solar PV:
For a typical new solar PV system (8.6 kW), conservatively:
All solar installations:
Residential: 12,500 tonnes
Commercial: 2,300 tonnes
Power stations: 0 tonnes
Based on estimated annual output of 25,675 MWh and 0.578 tonnes of CO2 produced by the energy network per MWh.
Equivalent to over 4,000 cars taken off the road per year based on these calculations
| Bellingen (A) | ~54.4% |
| New South Wales | ~39.8% |
| Byron | ~59.3% |
| Nambucca (A) | ~51.7% |
| Kempsey (A) | ~50.6% |
(All time: 2001-)
(All time: 2001-)
