The Gangarri Solar Project
A solar farm that generates enough electricity to power 50,000 homes.
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Shell Australia New Energies Community Fund 2020
The New Energies Community Fund provided financial grants to incorporated, not for profit organisations and traditional owner groups to deliver local renewable energy projects in the Wandoan, Queensland area.
What is the Gangarri Solar Project?
Shell Australia’s solar energy project is located in Wandoan, Queensland and bears the name “Gangarri Solar Project”. The solar project has been named “Gangarri” by local traditional owner group, the Iman people and means sunlight in the Iman language. Using a name given by the local traditional owners is a great way to build on this sense of pride and local connection. Gangarri is how the Iman people see this project; being purely energised by the gangarri (sunlight).
What is the New Energies Community Fund?
The New Energies Community Fund provided financial grants to incorporated, not for profit organisations and traditional owner groups between $5000 - $20000 to deliver local renewable energy project/s in the Wandoan area. This fund initiative was available for 2020 only.
Meet the recipients
Congratulations to Wandoan Community Commerce & Industry Association and Wandoan Show Society, the recipients of the New Energies Community Fund.
Watch: see the renewable projects the funding contributed to
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Title: Helping deliver local renewable projects | The Gangarri Solar Project
Duration: 1:21 minutes
Description:
An overview and example of how the New Energies Community Fund provides financial grants to incorporated, not for profit organisations and traditional owner groups to deliver local renewable energy project/s in the Wandoan, Queensland area.
Helping deliver local renewable projects | The Gangarri Solar Project Transcript
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Drone shot of rural landscape. Zooming to solar panels and sprinkler. Close up of Shell Officer speaking. Zoomed in shot of farm worker with a water hose. Close up of Wandoan Show Society President speaking. Zooming out to worker setting up irrigation system. Shell Officer and Wandoan President having a conversation on the farm. Sprinkler system operating. Shell Officer and Wandoan President having a conversation on the farm. Close up of Shell officer speaking. Close up of solar panels on computer screen at a workspace desk setting. Drone shot of solar panels on roof of building. Close up of underneath the solar panels. Community Secretary showing Shell Officer solar panels. Close up of Community Secretary speaking. Close up Wandoan Surf Club storefront. Zoom out to drone shot of rural landscape. White background with Shell logo.
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The Gangarri Community Fund
Helping deliver local renewable energy projects
Cheryl Archer Community Liaison Officer, Shell
Ross Stiller President, Wandoan Show Society
Margarette Sinnamon Secretary, Wandoan Community Commerce & Industry
SHELL PTY LTD 2021
Introduction
Community Liaison Officer, Shell
Cheryl Archer
The Community Fund came about from the Gangarri Solar Project and was an opportunity for Shell to support local not for profit organisations in projects in renewables or recycling.
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President, Wandoan Show Society
Ross Stiller
This irrigation project is going to be a great benefit to the showgrounds we can just stretch it out with time it’s set up to do the run, set amount of water, when it gets to the end it switches off so it’s going to make life a hell of a lot easier for a lot of people, a lot of our organisations, so, it will be great.
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Community Liaison Officer, Shell
Cheryl Archer
It’s really important that Shell is part of these communities. Sometimes this involves us living locally, also it’s about our funding and finding opportunities to help these communities be vibrant.
Visual change from footage from Cheryl Archer speaking to Margarette Sinnamon in a workplace setting
Wandoan Community Commerce & Industry
Margarette Sinnamon Secretary
We filled in the application form and sent it off and we were successful and and we now have a beautiful set of solar panels on our roof
Electricity is quite a big part of any business because you have to have power and the solar will cut that cost back and be able to keep our printing and all the services that we have here through the surf club, keep them affordable so that our community doesn’t leave the community so that we’ll keep them buying local, shopping local.
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