Premium Content Subscriber only Shalom College has aced its plan to go solar and increase the school's facilities with the official opening and blessing of two big projects on Thursday. These projects are the school's solar farm, which has a 810KW tracking solar system and Tesla battery power, and the Waterford Building. Principal Dan McMahon described it as a fantastic day for the school community. The solar farm contractor, GEM Energy CEO Jack Hooper, said the system had more than 2000 solar panels and almost enough energy to power an entire suburb. "The process involved looking at the school's energy consumption, considering its growth over the future of what energy saving measures we could take, including LED lighting, and then designing a solar system that will off-set the energy consumption for the whole school, will also generate enough energy to store in a battery," he said.