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Building Tune-Ups Project

Ten commercial office buildings in Adelaide are realising savings of $341,955 from energy bills and $27,790 from water bills each year.  The project has achieved annual reductions of 2,883 tonnes of CO2 and a reduction in water consumption of 27,160kL annually.

Tripling of ‘One Million Trees’

Tripling of the `One Million Trees' campaign.  The program now has a target of three million trees to be planted throughout Adelaide by 2014. All metropolitan local councils, 12 State Government agencies and over 100 schools have been involved in the program to date.  

Greening our Homes

Feed in Laws have been introduced in South Australia allowing owners of solar panels to sell electricity back to the grid.  The Electricity (Feed-In Scheme-Solar Systems) Amendment Act 2008 is the first solar feed-in law in Australia that will pay a premium guaranteed tariff of $0.44 per unit of electricity (kilowatt-hour, kWh), to households and small customers who feed solar electricity into the grid. The law came into effect on 1 July 2008, and will extend for 20 years.

In 2006 it because compulsory to install plumbed rainwater tanks in new dwellings, and all new homes and extensions in South Australia are required to achieve a 5-star level of energy efficiency.

Green City

The Girardet report formed the blueprint for the Adelaide Green City Program, now part of the broader Capital City program.  The Green City project generated $2.5 million spread over 44 projects.