Which Australian suburbs have the most solar powered homes…

What are Australia’s most renewable suburbs? As a nation we are wild for the power of the sun. Australia boasts 1.7 million homes with solar panels on the roof. But within that achievement, which suburbs and towns are doing the best?

The list of 22 postcodes that are leading the way is contained in Renewables Ready, a report issued by the Climate Council this week.

So is your postcode on the list? Have a look at the chart at the bottom of this story and see how you and your neighbours measure up to Australia’s most renewable suburbs.

Leading the charge is postcode 6171, Baldivis in Western Australia. The fast-growing suburb 46 km south of Perth has the highest penetration of rooftop solar anywhere in the nation at 69 per cent of all homes.

It is followed closely by the Queensland suburbs of Elimbah (63 per cent uptake) and Tamborine (57 per cent).

Queensland is out in front of other states by some margin when it comes to rooftop solar, 14 of the 22 postcodes on the list are in the sunshine state. And most of those are tightly clustered in the state’s southeast. Overall, 31.6 per cent of households in Queensland have solar panels on their rooves, ahead of 30.5 per cent in South Australia and 25.4 per cent in Western Australia.

Read more: https://arena.gov.au/blog/australias-most-renewable-suburbs/