Barwon Water, Barwon Health and GeelongPort: 2023 Finalist – Future energy
Barwon Water, Barwon Health and GeelongPort is a finalist for an Industry Leader award in the Premier's Sustainability Awards 2023 – Future energy category. Barwon Water, Barwon Health and Geelong Port joined forces to establish the Barwon Renewable Energy Partnership (BREP), securing a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Mt Gellibrand Wind Farm to supply a combined 68GWh per year of renewable electricity, commencing in 2022.
Renewable PPAs are a practical and cost-effective approach to sourcing zero-emissions renewable electricity from large-scale wind and solar farms via the electricity grid.
As the BREP members transition to 100% renewable electricity and strive to reach net zero carbon emissions, partnering has provided access to affordable clean energy and had a multiplier effect on outcomes that would not have been reached had the members acted alone.
The BREP PPA achieved several firsts in Victoria: regional Victoria’s first multi-sector PPA (second in Victoria after the Melbourne Renewable Energy Project’s PPAs), and the first PPA in both Victoria’s public health and international ports sectors.
