Last update: 2025-12-31
Figures are estimated based on available data.
See footnotes for details of data sources, terminology and analysis.
Residential installations: 15,956
Commercial installations: 1,062
Power stations: 8
Number of houses in LGA: 42,861
Installed residential capacity: 101,545 kW
Total installed capacity: 130,030 kW
Average annual kWh generated per kW installed: 1,420 kWh/kW
For all households with solar PV:
For a typical new solar PV system (8.6 kW), conservatively:
All solar installations:
Residential: 83,400 tonnes
Commercial: 21,100 tonnes
Power stations: 2,290 tonnes
Based on estimated annual output of 184,749 MWh and 0.578 tonnes of CO2 produced by the energy network per MWh.
Equivalent to over 33,000 cars taken off the road per year based on these calculations
| Hornsby | ~37.2% |
| New South Wales | ~39.8% |
| Hills Shire | ~47.2% |
| Central Coast (C) (NSW) | ~36.6% |
| Ku-ring-gai | ~31.8% |
(All time: 2001-)
(All time: 2001-)