Bio Breakaway

Government Approval

I need to approach my local Council (Casey Council) regarding approval on getting Solar and Wind power devices added to my property. The only thing I can find on their site is a document called the “Greenhouse Strategy Local Action Plan”. This document written in 2001 aims at “Reducing community emissions by 10%” with the target year of 2010. This is an old plan, and 2010 is practically here. The first thing is the online approach to see how they respond, and if they don’t a good old fashioned letter will follow. Here is what I wrote the council:

I want to enquire about any planning permissions that may be required for (a) solar power in a domestic property, grid connected or not; and (b) wind turbine use on a domestic property to augment solar technologies. With an average wind speed of 4.46m/s month to month the combined use of solar and wind in my area would almost reduce to zero the carbon footprint of our household with respect to energy use from the current coal powered grid. This would go towards helping Casey Council achieve the 10% community greenhouse reduction by 2010 according to your Local Action Plan. I would be happy to speak to someone before I get a quotation from an energy systems supplier to see if I need approval or how to proceed.