Sustainability

2017 - In addition to the broader use of recycling of materials and responsible purchasing and in keeping with our carbon neutral goals, our “Central” campus in Lyneham, became home to our first Award Winning Zero Net Energy (ZNE) 15 classroom Junior School Wing. Our Junior School supports over 400 Kindy to Year 4 students, and operates as a fully self-contained energy neutral building, housing over 100KW of Solar Panel capture and 26.4KWH of intelligent battery storage. Our intelligent energy systems also send full energy traffic data to flat panel TV screens across the Junior School in child friendly graphical animated information for the education of the students. This was Brindabella’s first practical step taken toward a complete ZNE College educating all students with a focus on the responsible use of renewable energy.

2018 - we partnered with EVT Energy who donated $100,000.00 toward our newly awarded ACT Government Zero Emissions Grant to prototype an educational art form for the purpose of inspiring imagination and further the education of our students on helping to reduce global carbon emissions.

2020 - this took the form of a “Solar Tree” integrated with Intelligent Energy Storage to allow for adding a range of independent stand-alone solar powered products and services; our Solar Tree is a “non-grid connected” stand-alone source of clean energy designed to support 2-5 days of autonomous energy supply in a single charge.

2021 - our “Aus-E” Solar Tree was connected to our first state-of-the-art intelligent Solar BBQ for the use of our staff and students and commissioned to replace existing gas-powered BBQ facilities.