Winton Shire Mayor Butch Lenton said the project has the potential to save the local community up to $15 million in energy consumption a year.
Winton Council has appointed LGIS to design a geothermal energy plant which will power all of Winton’s key council buildings and has the potential to power the entire town.
Cr Lenton said geothermal energy technology had existed for more than a century but this initiative was the first time in Australia that the proven form of energy production had been adopted to deliver such wide-ranging community outcomes.
He said the plant had a payback period of less than seven years with the savings delivering much needed dollars for community projects.
Best known as the home of Waltzing Matilda, Winton is the place that A B (Banjo) Paterson wrote the Australian national song in 1895, whilst visiting Dagworth Station. Legend has it that the first public performance of Waltzing Matilda happened at Winton’s North Gregory Hotel on 6th April, 1895.
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