Our visionary project is to create a zero carbon town within 10 years!
Healesville Community Renewable Energy Inc (Healesville CoRE) is a group of local community volunteers working towards transforming Healesville into a renewable energy town.
Healesville CoRE is excited to announce it is currently promoting a Solar & Battery Offer run by the Yarra Ranges Council. We launched our promotion at our first community event on March 2nd, and applications to be involved in the bulk buy program are live! To read more about this offer and for info on how to register, check out our Community Solar Offers page!
Clean Energy Nillumbik have invited you to attend to free online community events in October, 2020!
Healesville CoRE has been provided with information on 2 other interesting online community events coming up. The events are being run by Clean Energy Nillumbik, who although some distance away…
Camping with Grandad on the Mobile!!
Our President, Jeff Barlow, wrote the following: I was at home on my own last Sunday night, as I have been for the last 6 weeks during the COVID-19 lockdown…
“How could I look my grandchildren in the eye and say I knew about this – and I did nothing?”
– Sir David Attenborough
Solar panels, battery rebates to be boosted in Victorian Budget
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Victoria's solar rebate scheme gets a major boost in next week's State Budget, with thousands of rebates available for home solar panels and solar batteries, in addition to $250 cash rebates for low i...Too many Victorian families are stuck in a bind:
They'd save hundreds on their power bills with a newer, more efficient heating system – but the cost to get it replaced is always out of reach.
So they keep paying more and saving less.
We're about to change that.
We're helping 250,000 low-income households replace their old heater with an energy-efficient electric heater and cooling system – saving them up to $900 a year.
We're also improving the energy efficiency of over 35,000 social housing properties through heating, cooling and hot water upgrades – plus replacing seals on windows and doors.
And because no one should have to choose between keeping the lights on and putting food on the table, we're providing $250 payments for eligible concession card holders to help with immediate costs.
It's all part of the biggest household energy efficiency package of any state, ever – supporting thousands of jobs all up, saving families hundreds every year and helping to drive emissions down.
This past winter has been a long, hard slog. More time at home has meant bigger bills.
And this investment will help Victorians not just get through today – but plan for tomorrow too.
We ticked over our 100,000th Solar Homes installation the other day.
That means 100,000 Victorian families with half-price solar who paid nothing up front – and are already saving on their bills.
Now we're expanding the program further so an additional 42,000 households can get panels, and 17,500 households with solar already installed can get a battery rebate – in every corner of the state.
We're also opening things up to businesses for the first time, with 15,000 small business rebates available to take some of the pressure off.
This is all about putting power back in your hands – saving money, reducing emissions and creating thousands of jobs at the same time.
“Our science clearly shows that, due to increasing greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, in the atmosphere, Australia’s climate is continuing to warm, and the frequency of extreme events such as bushfires, droughts, and marine heatwaves is growing,” director of CSIRO’s Climate Science Centre, Dr Jaci Brown, said.
BoM wake up call: Record warming leading to more extreme heat, drought and fires
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BoM issues wake up call with latest ‘State of the Climate’ report, warning Australia on track for more extreme heat, bushfires and coral reef destruction.onestepoffthegrid.com.au
New documentary TV series tells story of how a solar and battery storage system went off-grid and into battle to help save a house and its nine occupants from the devastating bushfires that ravaged Ka...