In May this year, when Orpheus Island Lodge installed 810 gleaming solar panels on the hill behind the lodge we hoped the 300kW array would be able to provide up to 80% of our electricity needs, requiring the generator to be turned on for only a few hours each day.
Once the panels started producing renewable power for Orpheus, we quickly realised they were providing over 90% of our electricity needs, and with some tweaks to our daily habits on the island, we could be 100% renewably-powered, without compromising the barefoot luxuries that our guests seek.