The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is installing solar panels in selected meetinghouses in Australia and some of the islands of the South Pacific in an effort to be good environmental stewards and to cut energy costs.
There are solar energy panels in meetinghouses in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Kiribati, Vanuatu, Tonga, American Samoa, Tahiti, Cook Islands and New Zealand.”
Aerial view of Moroni High School in Tarawa, Kiribati.
Aerial view of Moroni High School in Tarawa, Kiribati. The school has solar panels to reduce energy costs.© 2022 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.“The Church has made continued efforts to promote the use of solar PV panels to reduce running costs and energy demand, where permitted by local regulations,” said David Amende, the Church’s engineer in the Pacific Area.
“We are exploring ways to utilise solar power and reduce energy demand in more of our meetinghouses.”
Church communication director for the Pacific Area, Richard Hunter, said, “God has given us all we have, so we have an obligation to use these resources wisely, and to respect the earth.”