Last update: 2024-09-30
Figures are estimated based on available data.
See footnotes for details of data sources, terminology and analysis.
Residential installations: 6,631
Commercial installations: 425
Power stations: 4
Number of houses in LGA: 18,186
Installed residential capacity: 39,091 kW
Total installed capacity: 53,423 kW
Average annual kWh generated per kW installed: 1,310 kWh/kW
For all households with solar PV:
For a typical new solar PV system (7 kW), conservatively:
All solar installations:
Residential: 37,900 tonnes
Commercial: 11,300 tonnes
Power stations: 2,620 tonnes
Based on estimated annual output of 70,050 MWh and 0.74 tonnes of CO2 produced by the energy network per MWh.
Equivalent to over 16,000 cars taken off the road per year based on these calculations
Bathurst Regional (A) | ~36.5% |
New South Wales | ~36.8% |
Blayney (A) | ~37.3% |
Oberon (A) | ~31.1% |
Lithgow (C) | ~30.7% |
(All time: 2001-)