The Solar City Project | Jul 20th 2010
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A model of the shaded skate park
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Townsville Queensland Solar City is putting out a call to local artists for designs for the project’s solar park, which will be a demonstration place for the Solar Suburb project on Magnetic Island.
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The Solar City Project | May 17th 2010
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Scott Cam addresses the Expo
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TV personality Scott Cam was an enthusiastic guest speaker – keen to encourage Islanders to adopt Ergon's 20 + 10 incentive scheme for clients who save 20% of their power per quarter to receive a 10% discount on their bill - at the Solar Suburb Trade Expo and Incentive Launch last week at the Smart Lifestyle Centre in Horseshoe Bay.
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The Solar City Project | May 9th 2010
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Scott Cam
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Australian television personality, Scott Cam will host the Solar Suburb Trade Expo and Incentive Launch on Magnetic Island this coming Tuesday, 11 May.
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The Solar City Project | Apr 20th 2010
Following is your invitation to the Solar Cities Trade Expo with celeb tradie Scott Cam.
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The Solar City Project | Dec 4th 2009
With public interest in mind, Magnetic Times has decided to publish a copy of a letter sent recently to The Queensland Minister for Natural Resources, Mines, Energy and Trade, Stephen Robertson, by Island resident Mr Michael Schmidt who has some strong criticisms to make about the proposed Solar Park at Horseshoe Bay. It is important to disclose that your editor is one of the three community members on the working group and an attendee to all of the meetings so far and that I see the project in a far more positive light. But, because this is an important matter we have, for the record, reproduced Mike Schmidt's letter in full in the public interest.
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The Solar City Project | Dec 2nd 2009
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Group photo from the Monday meeting
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Community involvement is improving the Solar Park plan proposed by Ergon's Solar Cites team, meeting by meeting. Two meetings were held this week. One was an open public forum on Monday and the second was today, for a working group drawn from Monday's group. Both have seen significant progress towards an impressive community result.
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The Solar City Project | Nov 25th 2009
Following is an important notice regarding the 3rd Solar Park consultation and design meeting.
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The Solar City Project | Nov 10th 2009
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A preliminary skate park shade structure concept
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On Monday night the Magnetic Island community had an important win and the Ergon Energy-led Solar Cities project on Magnetic Island showed they were indeed responsive to community wishes when the plan to locate banks of solar panels in a “Solar farm” between the Smart Lifestyle Centre (formerly the MI Sports and Rec. Club) was scrapped in favour of a new direction prompted by the community.
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The Solar City Project | Nov 3rd 2009
Following is an important message regarding a Community Meeting Notice from Ergon's Solar Cities on Magnetic Island
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Solar Park meeting tomorrow
Interested residents are invited to attend a community meeting tomorrow night to share ideas on the development of a solar park on Magnetic Island [ read more ]
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Meet the Solar City artists
Following is an invitation to the Magnetic Island community to meet the artists selected for the Townsville Solar City Commemorative Artwork [ read more ]
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$130,000 public artwork for Bright Point
In April this year the Office of Clean Energy's Public Art Unit put out a call for artists interested in designing and installing a public artwork at Nelly Bay which would commemorate the Townsville Solar Cities project [ read more ]
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Solar Cities painting prize drawn
The draw to win an original landscape painting, donated by Magnetic Island artist Vonnie Van Bemmel, for the opening of the Solar Cities Smart Lifesyle Centre in Horseshoe Bay on Saturday September 13, was made and announced yesterday [ read more ]
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Strand sun to power new solar display
As part of the New Townsville City Council's Citisolar program, Townsville City Council Sustainable Services and Delfin Townsville are developing plans for a cutting edge solar energy display on the Gregory St headland as part of the $30 million Townsville: Queensland Solar City project [ read more ]
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Milestone for Magnetic solar suburb
"It's worth it just for the learning," was how Magnetic Island's first recipient of solar panels under the Solar Cities project, Ms Lindy King of Nelly Bay, described the impact of having a "smart meter" in her house - a feature of the program which is set to see 500 Magnetic homes fitted with solar panels and retrofitted with energy saving and measuring devices [ read more ]
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