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DIY power the Rooty Hill RSL way

August 01, 2014
Every hour of every day, Rooty Hill RSL Club keeps its members, their families and friends, and its employees warm, cool, well fed, exercised and entertained.
The club operates from 10am every morning until 5am the following day. It closes only long enough for staff to make sure it’s clean and stocked, ready for the next round of visitors.

Having grown from fairly simple origins in the 1960s, the Rooty Hill Group now runs the original club, with its restaurants, lounges and bars, a health and fitness complex, a hotel, a bowling club, gymnastics club and aquatic centre across 20 acres in western Sydney.

/><br /> <br /> <em>The Jenbacher J320 Gas Engine which is now in action in Rooty Hill</em><br /> <br /> For a not-for-profit organisation such as Rooty Hill RSL, this means far lower power costs along with lower greenhouse gas emissions.<br /> <br /> “The plant will pay for itself in a few years,” Hunter says. “The power generation is a lot cheaper than buying it from the grid, and we get hot and cold water as a bonus.”