Repower Cooran

The story of a Noosa rural community who stood together to demand better access to solar and other forms of renewable energy to improve their lives and the environment they live in.

Celebrating Cooran’s Community Power

Repowering Cooran

The Noosa Shire’s Cooran community has over 1MW of installed residential solar photovoltaic energy. Through their community they have also organised and delivered a series of energy efficiency discussions designed to help support a reduction in energy use across the community.

Community power at its finest

Cooran is a community of environmentally conscious residents. Not only are they the embracing solar they have also made a strong stance against coal seam gas exploration in the region under the Cooran Earth Rights initiative.

 

Cooran - Number of Properties with Solar PV

Above is the gradual and steady increase in installed solar for the Cooran community.

Cooran - Total kW of Installed Solar PV

Heading in the right direction Cooran with over 1MW of installed solar capacity. This represents more than 47% of this suburb with solar power!