Track our progress

Key achievements 2024- 2025

Reducing Emissions and Energy Costs

  • We completed our 12-month ‘Virtual Energy Network (VEN)’ pilot. Which was successful and indicates potential for significant annual operating savings.
  •  Upgraded 20 Foreshore Amenity blocks with high efficiency hot water heat pumps.
  • We updated our standards on EV charging, Solar PV & Battery and Hot Water Heating for Shire buildings,.
  • We delivered the first year of sustainability actions our Community Asset Maintenance Services contracts,
  • We completed our ‘Municipal Major Roads Streetlight Upgrade’ project, which will result in an annual saving of over $500,000 and avoid approx. 575 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions every year.
  •  540 free, Shire-funded SunSpot solar assessments were completed.
  • 26+ businesses were involved in our ‘Trim Your Bin’ program, with 841 tonnes of reduced, avoided or recycled waste and business savings of $155,000.
  •  We collected and diverted from landfill almost 21,066 tonnes of mixed FOGO material from 22,794 participating households.

Supporting High Priority Populations
  • We awarded 53 Energy Support Grants to support low-income residents (largely pensioners) to invest in household energy efficient upgrades. and an additional 10 household energy upgrades through the Climate Safe Homes program.
  • We advocated to State and Federal government increased support for vulnerable community members to build resilience to climate change.

Building Community Capacity

  • We delivered the Flinders Community Battery, the first non-network owned community battery delivered in Australia under the Community Batteries for Household Solar program
  • We awarded a total of $114,491 through Climate Action Grants to 21 community-led initiatives, now totalling $456,782 across 80 projects.
  • Our ‘Schools Sustainability Education’ program won the Keep Australia Beautiful Victoria Tidy Town Behaviour Change and Education Award. In 2024/2025, this program educated a further 1,505 students.
  • We partnered with Ceres to host the third annual Student Environmental Leadership Summit, which was attended by 120 students from across the Mornington Peninsula.
  • We engaged with 1,285 community members through our Community Sustainability Education activities, including workshops, webinars and events.
  • Hosted 7 community events to play The Adaptation Game to build community resilience
  • Delivery of energy efficiency education to businesses through supporting 55 assessments of Best Bites businesses and supporting the Business Excellence Summit.

Solar upgrade map

Use the map below to locate shire facilities that have been upgraded. Use the search tool or left click on a map symbol to view the facility details.

Check out:

  • The Shire’s operated and tenanted buildings with solar capacity totalling 2.1MW of solar capacity with an annual generation potential of 2,768MWh. 
  • Businesses that installed solar through the previous Environmental Upgrade Finance (EUF) program.

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See how the Shire's solar capacity is growing over time with the solar time-lapse map below.

Conversion of Shire buildings from gas to electric

See map below to view the recent upgrade of shire buildings from gas to electric. For more information on electrification see here

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Diverting landfill gas

We have reduced our landfill emissions by converting landfill gas to electricity.
Click here to see the landfill energy production live display dashboard

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