Opinion
Mayoral Column — Energy-saving initiatives benefit Penrith long term
Penrith City Council is celebrating milestones as the city moves toward a cleaner, greener future.
This week marks one year since Council switched its street lighting across the LGA to LED. The numbers are now in: electricity demand on those circuits is down 64 percent, with an avoided cost of just over $2.1 million in year one.
We have also commissioned new rooftop solar arrays at the Jamisontown depot, the St Marys works depot and the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre. Together these three sites now generate three-quarters of their own daytime energy.
These projects don't grab headlines but they pay for themselves quickly, and the savings flow into the services residents do notice — playgrounds, libraries, road resurfacing.
Our next target is to electrify the light-fleet vehicles used by Council's parks and rangers teams by the end of 2027.
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