Moore touts green energy in face of shortages

A meeting at the contentious Pyrmont site Workplace6 for the Council of Capital City Lord Mayors became the platform to intensify the push for greener and more cost-effective energy generation.

Just an hour after Sydney had recovered from another blackout on Saturday, the Lord Mayors of each Australian capital city gathered at Workplace6, a new 6-star Green Star building in Pyrmont, which produces 25% of its own electricity using tri-generation technology.

Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore said a network of Green Transformers could be installed to locally generate electricity across the inner city.

“The Green Transformer system would provide a strategic, low carbon energy strategy to provide a fail safe system for Sydney as opposed to the current back-up generation provided by a few individual proponents,” she said.

Moore said relying on centralised coal-fired power generation puts Sydney at continued risk of blackouts because supply lines will be vulnerable to bushfires, natural disaster or mechanical failure.

The first of its kind in NSW, and a model for environmentally sound architecture worldwide, Workplace6 already houses Google offices.

But the site at Pirrima Road has recently come under fire from residents after a development application was approved by the City to allow a conference centre, café and outdoor area on the ground floor of the building.
Despite the proposal conforming with all aspects of Council’s development application guidelines, locals from surrounding apartments tendered 93 objections out of the total 115 submissions, citing noise as a major concern.