CLUB Lemon Tree is very much switched on at the moment, serving as the only public electric vehicle charging station on the Tilligerry Peninsula.

Club President Kevin Colman OAM said that clubs must move with the times to become competitive and offer services to their local areas and ‘put back’ into the communities which support them.

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“Currently, we assist around forty sporting and community groups,” he said.

“Even during the Covid lockdown we were able to keep this going although the amount was a bit less,” he added.

To move with the times, Club Lemon Tree has been well aware of changing attitudes to power use and the need to move away from fossil fuels.

Some 400 solar panels on the club’s roof have saved them a fortune in power bills and lessened the need to rely on coal generated power.

“Rather than dig deep and completely replace our ageing air conditioning system,we will be installing smaller localised units which are more efficient until we decide on future plans for the club,” he said.

“A government grant helped us to install the electric vehicle charging bays.

“There is not a lot of demand at the moment but we must plan for the future in this rapidly changing world,” he stated.

By Geoff WALKER