Leichhardt Municipal Council
1. Organisation and Product Information
Organisation Name
Leichhardt Municipal Council
Name of the subject(s) of
certification
Leichhardt Municipal Council
Type of certification (tick
all applicable)
 Organisation
☐ Product/service
☐ Part of organisation
☐ Event
Reporting year period*
From 1/07/2011
To 30/06/2012
Emissions in this reporting
year
9,587.9 t CO2-e
Base year period
From 1/07/2011
Emissions in the base year
9,587.9 t CO2-e
To 30/06/2012
*Leichhardt Council is not claiming carbon neutrality for Financial Year 2011/12.
Carbon neutrality will commence on 1 July 2012 for the period Financial Year
2012/13. The carbon footprint shown here has been calculated for the purpose of
establishing a base year emissions profile and entry into the carbon neutral
program.
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2. Description of Organisation Activities
Figure 1: The broad categories of services and functions provided by Leichhardt Municipal
Council
Leichhardt Municipal Council (The Council) is located in the Inner West of Sydney,
NSW and the municipality includes the suburbs of Leichhardt, Lilyfield, Balmain,
Rozelle, Birchgrove and Annandale. Our local government area (LGA) covers around
1,000 hectares and has approximately 54,500 residents.
The Council owns 103 buildings and properties and there are 3,991 streetlights
within the LGA.
Some properties owned by the Council are leased to third parties, these are:
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Balmain Sailing Club
Birchgrove Tennis Courts
Flower Barrow & Van
Gladstone Park Bowling Club
Pelligirini’s Seafood Restaurant
These have been excluded from the inventory, as they outside of the organisational
activities of the Council. Leichhardt Council has adopted a carbon neutral target of
achieving net zero emissions by the end of 2012.
As part of the development of a comprehensive Climate Change Plan for the
Council, a suite of actions have been established to deliver a reduction in corporate
energy consumption and carbon emissions targeting carbon neutral by reducing
energy demand through energy efficiency measures, by generating low carbon
energy with cogeneration, installing renewable energy systems on facilities and
purchasing GreenPower and carbon offsets for residual annual emissions.
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3. Organisational & Geographic Boundary/ Scope &
system Boundary
Boundary
consolidation
approach:
Operational Control
Description of the
boundary of the
subject of certification
(also describe
exclusions from the
boundary):
The whole of Councils’ operations have been accounted for in
this inventory. The assessment has been based on the premise
that all emissions are included which would not otherwise have
occurred if the Council did not exist.
The Council does not have any joint ventures, subsidiaries,
partnerships or separate, specific business units that could be
regarded as having administrative responsibility for discrete
facilities. All activities and operations are undertaken within the
management structure shown in Figure 2.
The facilities operated by The Council can be categorised as
follows:
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Administration Building
Baby Health Care Centre
Car Parks and Driveway
Child Care Centre
Commercial Facilities
Community/Neighbourhood Centre
Cottage
Council Public Lighting
Depot Buildings
Emergency Services
Investment Property
Libraries
Parks and Reserves
Aquatic Leisure Centres
Road Structures
Senior Citizens Building
Sporting Ovals
Toilets/Amenities
Town Hall
A fleet of vehicles is owned and maintained by the Council.
There are 154 vehicles in total and these are comprised of:
 42 Vans, Trucks and Heavy Vehicles;
 23 Tractors, Mowers, Backhoes and Maintenance Plant
and;
 89 passenger vehicles.
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The Council has assessed all emissions sources under its
operational control (using the operational control test as
specified by the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act
2007). This accounts for all Scope 1 and 2 emissions. Other
significant sources of Scope 3 emissions have been assessed
and these are:
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Street lighting
Water consumption
Staff commuting to and from work
Telecommunication Services
IT Equipment expenditure
Paper use
Stationery supplies
Cleaning services
Food & Catering purchases
Postage services
Printing services
Advertising services
Taxis
Waste to landfill from Council operations
Waste from gardens and parks.
These emissions sources have been included on the basis that
they account for a comprehensive overview of all emissions
related to Councils operations and that they would be
considered as relevant for a range of key stakeholders.
Street lighting has been allocated as a Scope 3 emission source
as The Council cannot introduce or implement operating, health
and safety or environmental policies in relation to these assets.
In addition, street lights would be regarded as a ‘facility’ of the
distribution network and as such treated as a Scope 2 emission
source by the owner of the network, so that double-counting
would occur should The Council also allocate this a source of
Scope 2 emissions.
Emissions related to capital investment equipment, business
travel by air, residential waste to landfill, third party leased
premises, freight, financial investments and contractors have
been excluded from the inventory, more details on exclusions
can be found in Section 6.
This inventory has measured greenhouse gases in carbon dioxide
equivalence (CO -e) and includes all six greenhouse gases covered by
the Kyoto Protocol – carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH ), and
Nitrous oxide (N2O), perfluorocarbons (PFCs), hydrofluorocarbons
(HFCs), and sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) and hydrochloroflurocarbons
(HCFCs) covered by the Montreal Protocol (where applicable) by
multiplying the amount of gas by the Global Warming Potential
(GWP). The relevant quantities of each gas are shown in Table
3.1
2
4
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Table 3.1 A summary of scope and gas type for LMC
Emission
Source
CO2
(tCO2-e/yr)
CH4
(tCO2-e/yr)
N2O
(tCO2-e/yr)
HFCs & HCFCs
(tCO2-e/yr)
Total
Scope 1
995.3
1.0
7.9
27.4
1,031.7
Scope 2
4,322.1
3.6
14.0
-
4,339.6
Scope 3
5,647.4
112.4
0.0
0.0
5,759.8
GreenPower
-1,539.9
-0.6
-2.5
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-1,543.1
Total (Gross)
10,964.8
117.0
21.9
37.4
11,131.0
Total (Net)
9,424.8
116.3
19.4
27.4
9,587.9
Council Structure
COUNCIL
CURRENT 2013
MAYOR
DARCY BYRNE
GENERAL MANAGER
PETER HEAD
EMPLOYEE SERVICES &
RISK MANAGEMENT
GRAHAM CARNEGIE
ENVIRONMENT &
COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT
PETER CONROY
LEGAL SERVICES
MARGARET LYONS
CORPORATE &
INFORMATION SERVICES
DAVID MARSHALL
INFRASTRUCTURE &
DELIVERY
PETER GAINSFORD
COMMUNITY & CULTURAL
SERVICES
ERLA RONAN
CITIZEN SERVICE
CENTRE
WORKS & WASTE
SERVICES
DEVELOPMENT ASSESSMENT
ADMINISTRATION
ASSET MANAGEMENT
COMPLIANCE &
ENFORCEMENT
PROPERTY &
COMMERCIAL SERVICES
PARKS & STREETSCAPES
ENVIRONMENTAL & URBAN
PLANNING
INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY
COMMUNITY OPERATIONS
FINANCIAL SERVICES
TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT
MEDIA & COMMUNICATIONS
KATE WALSH / BRENDAN
BERECRY
Key
LIBRARIES
SMT ROLE
RECREATIONAL
FACILITIES
Figure 2: Diagram of the Structure of the Subject of Certification
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4. Diagram of the Boundary of the Subject of
Certification
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5. Purchase of GreenPower and Retirement of
GreenPower Eligible Large-Scale Generation
Certificates (LGCS)
Type
Volume
Unit
t CO2-e
Status
GreenPower
1,455,761.9
kWh
1,543.1
Purchased
6. Total Carbon Footprint
Activity Sector
Activity/Service
Electricity
Electricity (Street lighting)
Utilities
Equipment
Employees
Transport Fuels
Third Party
Services
Synthetic Gases
Waste
Natural Gas
Scope
Emissions
(tCO2-e/yr)
Percentage
2&3
5,227.2
47.0%
3
3,257.4
29.3%
1&3
19.8
0.2%
Telecommunications
3
60.1
0.5%
Water
3
13.9
0.1%
IT Equipment
3
63.3
0.6%
Paper
3
30.6
0.3%
Stationery
3
53.1
0.5%
Employee Commuting
3
474.3
4.3%
Biodiesel
1
2.2
0.0%
Post 2004 Gasoline
1&3
384.0
3.4%
Post 2004 Diesel oil
1&3
678.6
6.1%
Post 2004 Ethanol (IC)
1
0.02
0.0%
Cleaning Services
3
132.7
1.2%
Food & Catering
3
69.6
0.6%
Postage
3
16.7
0.2%
Printing
3
86.0
0.8%
Advertising
3
125.3
1.1%
Taxis
3
1.9
0.0%
Refrigerant
1
27.4
0.3%
Waste-landfill
3
112.4
1.0%
Waste - Green
3
294.5
2.6%
11,131.0
100.0%
Total (Gross)
Electricity (GreenPower)
Deductions
Electricity (GreenPower) Street
lighting
Total (Net)
2&3
3
-908.5
-634.6
9,587.9
Note: 6.3% of overall emissions have been estimated using the ISA input/output
calculator
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7. Carbon Offset Purchases and Retirement for this
Reporting Period
8.1 Offset Purchasing and Cancellation Strategy
Offsets for the period 1/7/2012 to 30/6/2013 have been purchased and
cancelled in advance of that period being completed based on the emissions
profile for Leichhardt Municipal Council in the period 1/7/2011 to 30/6/2012. The
emission quantity for Financial Year 2012/13 will be trued up at the end of that
period and if any additional offsets are required, these will be purchased and
cancelled at that time. Should there be any surplus offsets from the units
cancelled, these will be banked for use in the Financial Year 2013/14 period.
Offsets for future periods will be purchased and cancelled prior to the end of
each reporting period.
Note: Carbon neutrality is not being claimed for the period 1/7/11 to 30/6/12,
with the data and assessment from this period just being used to quantify the
carbon footprint for carbon neutrality commencing from 1/7/2012.
8.2 Offset Cancellation
Note the Carbon Offsets purchased and retired appear on the registry as being for
Financial Year 2011/12. Originally Council had sought to make the 2011/12
Financial Year the first year of Carbon Neutrality. Council is no longer seeking
Carbon Neutral certification for the 2011/12 year and the Offsets in the below table
are for the 2012/13 Financial Year which will become Council’s first year of carbon
neutrality.
Offset type
Quantity
Registry
Serial number
Markit (http://mer.markit.com/brreg/public/index.jsp?q=leichhardt&s=cr)
1610-6730638567307418-VCU006-MER-AU-14587-0103201028022011-0
1,034
VCU - Hebei
Chongli County
Qingsanying
Second Phase
49.3MW Wind
Power Project
Markit (http://mer.markit.com/brreg/public/index.jsp?q=leichhardt&s=cr)
2185-8927346889276324-VCU008-MER-CN-1807-0801200931122009-0
2,857
VCU - Siam
Cement Biomass
Markit (http://mer.markit.com/br-
2170-8810414088109887-VCU-
VCU - Protection
of a Tasmanian
Native Forest
(Project 3: Peter
Downie)
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(t CO2-e)
5,748
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Project
reg/public/index.jsp?q=leichhardt&s=cr)
008-MER-TH-4403-0107200930092009-0
Total
9,639
8.3 Surplus Cancelled Offsets
Should there be any surplus offsets from the units cancelled, these will be banked for use in
the Financial Year 2013/14 period.
9
Emission Reduction Measures
Emission
source
Reduction Measure
Reduction
Scope
Status
2&3
In
progress
8.2
2&3
In
Progress
11.3
tCO2-e
Annandale Child Care Centre:
Electricity
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Occupancy Sensors to the downstairs
office lighting.
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Replace T8 Lighting with T5 luminaires
throughout the building
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Enable Timeclock control to all multi
split AC units
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Replace electric storage hot water unit
with heat pump type unit
Annandale Neighbourhood Centre:
Electricity
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Replace T8 Lighting with T5
Luminaires (Main Centre Building)
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Labelling of lighting and heater fans
within upstairs kitchen (Main Centre
Building)
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Install time clock controls to the Zip
boiling hot water unit. (Kitchen)
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Replace Wall heaters with inverter
split air conditioners (Back Hall)
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Install a 2kW PV system to the roof
top
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Replace electric storage hot water
unit with heat pump type unit (Back
Hall)
Balmain Depot:
Electricity
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Replace T8 single Lamp Luminaires
with T5 Luminaires & install larger
ceiling tiles (Depot Admin)
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Replace T8 Twin Lamp Luminaires
with T5 Luminaires and install larger
ceiling tiles to suit (Depot Admin)
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Replace T8 single Lamp Luminaires
with T5 Luminaires & install larger
ceiling tiles (Depot Amenities)
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Install run on timer to toilet exhaust
fan (depot admin building)
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Replace Manual temperature control
switch with time clock control with
temperature lockout set to 20°C 24°C. (Depot admin A/C)
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Install Plug Timer control to mains
electric storage heater within store.
(Depot Admin)
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Install Plug Timer control to mains
electric storage water heater (50
litre) (Carpenter's Workshop)
2&3
In
Progress
3.5
2&3
In
Progress
11.5
Balmain Library
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Electricity
Install Programmable timer with
labelling on the zip hot water unit
(Town hall kitchen)
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Turn off or replace unused fridge
(Town hall Kitchen)
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Reprogramme the FCU serving the
compactus (Library)
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Reprogramme the FCU serving the
library Meeting room to operate only
when occupied. (Library)
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Replace the children's area fan coil
unit (revise size from 22kW to
17kW)(Library)
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Relocate temperature sensors for
each fan coil unit to within each
respective conditioned space.
(Library)
Catherine Street Depot:
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Install occupancy sensor to T8
Lighting in space. (Garbage
Storage)
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Install an Occupancy sensor system
to the these two rooms with 5
minute run timer. (Mechanical
Workshop - Store & Oil Store)
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Replace high bay lighting with Pulse
start MH lamps with bi-level HID
control gear (dimming available for
day light application). To be
installed with pulse start MH lamp
(Mechanical workshop)
Electricity
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Replace radiant electric Wall heaters
with split units (Amenities)
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Install time clock controls to the Zip
boiling hot water unit. (Amenities)
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Install time clock controls to the Zip
boiling hot water unit.
(Demountable Office)
2&3
In
Progress
7.2
2&3
In
Progress
342.0
Leichhardt Administration Building:
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Install occupancy sensor and rewire
circuit to Ground floor Records Store
(Admin Building Ground level)
Electricity
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Install occupancy sensor to toilet
lighting (Town hall)
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Remove Demountable lighting
(Demountable)
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Install occupancy sensor to the
downstairs office (Town hall)
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Install occupancy sensor lighting in
Mayors Office (Town hall)
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Perform detailed afterhours metering
monitoring at the town hall and admin
building to identify the after hours
base load. The plant causing this
significant after hours load could not
be determined during the current
analysis.
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Install PV to the Town hall roof
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Install time clock control to vending
machine
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Install time clock control to
refrigerated water dispenser (Admin
building and town hall)
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Install time clock controls to the Zip
boiling hot water units (Main admin,
Town hall)
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Install time clock controls to the Zip
boiling hot water units (Mayors
Kitchenette)
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Link Toilet exhaust fans to toilet
lighting circuits with occupancy
sensors (Town Hall)
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Remove Dry air coolers at roof level
which currently serve Ground and
level 1 carrier units (admin building)
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Replace main packaged unit on
ground level with VRF System (Admin
Building)
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Replace main packaged unit on
ground level with VRF System (Admin
Building)
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Removal of demountable office air
conditioning (demountable office)
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Replace existing Carrier packaged and
replace with new temperzone
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packaged unit. (Town Hall)
Leichhardt Child Care Centre:
Electricity
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Install time clock controls to the Zip
boiling hot water unit.
2&3
In
Progress
1.4
2&3
In
Progress
12.0
2&3
In
Progress
5.0
2&3
In
Progress
1,236.4
Leichhardt Library:
Electricity
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Replace 50W Low voltage
downlights to LED downlights
(library reception and back wall)
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Install Occupancy Sensor to Staff
Toilets
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Relocate temperature sensors for
each fan coil unit to within each
respective conditioned space.
(Library)
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Supply and install damper actuators
to each fan coil unit. (Library)
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Install Timer control to mains
electric storage heater (library)
Leichhardt Oval:
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Install occupancy sensor with 10min
timer to lighting within weights
room
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Install occupancy sensor with 10min
timer to lighting within reserves
changing room
Electricity
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Install occupancy sensor with 10min
timer to lighting within main
changing room
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Install time clock controls to the Zip
boiling hot water unit. (Bar/Kitchen)
Leichhardt PAC:
Electricity
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Install occupancy sensors with 5
minute timers to the aerobics studio
lighting circuit (Main building)
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Install daylight (Lux level) sensor
with 20minute timer to foyer
uplights (Main Building)
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Revise operating hours of low lights
within the indoor pool
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Replace current T8 lighting with T5
fittings within the aerobics studio
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Two 30kWe micro turbines, capable
of providing a combined 120kW of
heat output
- Two high efficiency boilers each
rated at 340kW
- New plantroom of 150m2 for
housing the microturbines, boilers,
heat exchangers and other plant
equipment.
- A PoolPak unit for meeting the air
and water heating requirements for
the indoor pools.
- Upgrade of air distribution
ductwork serving the indoor pool
area.
Photovoltaic Arrays:
Electricity
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Leichhardt Aquatic Centre – 13 kW
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Leichhardt Oval – 122.4 kW
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Balmain Library and Town Hall – 3.6
kW
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Balmain Depot – 21 kW
2&3
Feasibility
Study
160.7
Total emission reductions implemented in this reporting period
0.0
Total expected emission reductions in future reporting periods
1,799.2
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10 Other Information
Strategic context
The Community and Council working together to promote and develop Leichhardt
as a sustainable and liveable community is the Council Vision for Leichhardt.
The Leichhardt 2025+ Strategic Plan sets out the strategic direction of the
council under six Key Service Areas:
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6.
Community Well-being
Accessibility
A Place Where We Live & Work
A Sustainable Environment
Business in the Community
Sustainable Services & Assets
Building on the Leichhardt 2025+, Strategic Service Plans, including the
Environmental Sustainability Strategy provide detailed objectives, actions and
measures that are incorporated into Council’s four-year Delivery Plan, annual
Operational Plan and Budget.
The Leichhardt Environmental Sustainability Strategy 2010 – 2014 outlines
Council’s objectives, targets and strategies under the Key Service Area, A
Sustainable Environment including the adoption of a Climate Change Plan as the
principal policy framework for corporate decision-making in response to climate
change (Action CC1). A Climate Change Plan has been prepared in response to this
action, grouping initiatives by four Strategic Objectives:
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3)
4)
Address the cause of climate change by cutting corporate carbon emissions
Manage the Risks and Build Resilience to Climate Change
Develop Organisational Capacity to understand and address Climate Change
Build Community Capacity and Connections to Address Climate Change
Carbon reduction actions were developed following energy audits by a qualified and
experienced sustainability consultant (Cundall) to investigate opportunities to
reduce council greenhouse gas emissions.
Council’s Climate Change Taskforce Committee were also engaged with the
development of actions. Council formed the Climate Change Taskforce Committee
in 2009 to investigate the policies and actions required for the Council to become
carbon neutral by 2012. The carbon reduction initiatives were approved at the
December 2011 Climate Change Taskforce Meeting and adopted by council at the
December 2011 Ordinary Council meeting for implementation and budget.
Our approach
As a business model Local Government is very diverse with a broad range of
responsibilities for services and facilities ranging from waste and recycling, roads
and parks, childcare facilities, libraries, and planning and administration.
This diversity creates a level of complexity with managing council’s greenhouse gas
emissions, and within the context of a limited budget, makes it essential to adopt a
strategic approach to carbon mitigation and energy savings.
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This plan adopts a Carbon Abatement Hierarchy to guide actions in order of priority,
delivering long-term best value.
Priority 1. Avoid energy consumption
The first step in a best practice energy management is to avoid energy
consumption and generating greenhouse gases in the first place. Such actions have
an immediate financial return because they involve little to no financial capital
outlay. These activities will include:
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Staff and facility user education
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Labeling switches to ensure equipment or lights are not
unintentionally turned on or off
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Monitoring and reporting on energy consumption, and;
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Maintaining equipment in good working condition
Priority 2. Improve energy efficiency
These initiatives involve replacing less efficient products with energy efficient ones
to reduce energy demand for example:
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Upgrading to energy efficient lighting
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Upgrading heating, ventilation and cooling systems (HVAC) to more
efficient technologies
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Replacing inefficient hot water systems with energy efficient models
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Fuel efficient fleet
The benefit of reducing energy demand through efficiency early in the program, is
that later initiatives, such as solar, become less expensive as they can be scaled
down to match a reduced energy demand.
Priority 3. Onsite Energy Generation
Following energy demand reduction initiatives, onsite energy generation can be
implemented where feasible, scaled to a reduced energy demand from earlier
initiatives. Projects within this group include:
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Cogeneration/tri-generation (switching to lower carbon intensive fuel)
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Renewable energy systems such as solar and wind.
Priority 4. Carbon offsets and off-site renewable energy
Following all other initiatives, purchasing GreenPower from an accredited source or
(NCOS) compliant Carbon Offsets will address residual annual carbon emissions to
achieve net-zero emissions. Leichhardt Council will only purchase carbon offsets
that meet the requirements of the National Carbon Offsets Standard (NCOS).
The outcomes of each initiative will be monitored against the FY 2011/12 baseline
to allow for adjustment of goals, targets and performance measures as well as
identification of further reduction strategies.
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11. Declaration
To the best of my knowledge and having implemented the quality controls and standards
required under the NCOS Carbon Neutral Program and made all appropriate inquiries, the
information provided in this Public Disclosure Summary is true and correct.
PETER HEAD
Signature
GENERAL MANAGER
19 July 2013
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