SUO recipient of $50,000 Bushfire Recovery Grant
Sustainable Upper Ovens Inc received $49,680 for a pilot study to trial two community–based funding models to provide solar PV installations for low–income households.
Towards a Virtual Power Plant
Our Community Energy & eV group is working together on a study conducted by Indigo Power’s analyst Nick Mason-Smith to explore the feasibility of having community batteries, similar to the one in Yackandandah in Bright, Mt Beauty, Myrtleford, Beechworth, Towong Shire and Tumbarumba. Called “The Aggregated Community Battery Project”, if successful, the batteries will be […]
What can we do to cut living costs?
Dr Helen Haines (Indi MP) and Dr Saul Griffith’s (Rewiring Australia) opinion piece published on 10th August in the Alpine Observer puts families at the centre of energy policy. It highlights five ways governments can help communities reduce cost of living pressures and build their own energy resilience. But what can we do now to […]