Healesville Community Renewable Energy were thrilled to receive an unexpected grant from Sustainability Victoria last year, in order to continue accelerating the transition to renewable energy in the town. Part of the grant is being used to provide energy efficiency improvements to a much loved… Read More »Another Healesville CoRE Community Energy Project!
Healesville CoRE was thrilled to be invited to participate in Healesville Connect’s third birthday party, which took place at Queens Park on Thursday 11 January in the form of a family picnic. We set up our stand up next to the Healesville Community Emergency Group… Read More »Healesville CoRE at Healesville Connect’s 3rd Birthday
Our 2023 Annual General Meeting will be held on Monday 16th October from 7:30pm to 9:00pm at the Darren Honey Centre, Healesville. We would love to see you there. Please register so we know you are coming.
We welcome you to our next exciting free public event on Monday 2nd October 2023, 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm. It’ll be an interactive discussion with guest speakers Matthew Charles-Jones, from Totally Renewable Yackandandah (TRY), Glen Morris, Healesville’s own renewable energy guru, and Amy Gregorovich from the… Read More »Invest a Monday night to learn how to “Keep the lights on”
A few years ago, Yarra Glen set up a community renewable group and gave it the very appropriate name of Yarra Glenergy. Solar panels installed on public buildings in Yarra Glen means that sporting clubs and the local kinder now enjoy dramatically reduced power bills.… Read More »Merger with Yarra Glenergy
Before the State election last November, the government committed $60,000 to Healesville CoRE, so that we could continue to build on and expand our work in our community. Naturally we were delighted with this completely unexpected but very welcome news, feeling that it was a… Read More »$60,000 grant awarded
This project has generated quite a lot of interest, and rightly so. It’s only been two years since the huge storm hit the Yarra Valley and Dandenong Ranges, leaving many households without power for a week or more. And then there’s the flooding we’ve experienced… Read More »Healesville Microgrid update
One of our members, Elly Hanrahan, was awarded a National Scholarship for her proposal for a Landscape Rehydration Strategy, which saw her head off to Egypt to take part in the 2022 UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) in November last year. What an amazing and… Read More »Elly’s trip to COP27 Egypt
A solar electricity system installed at St Brigid’s Primary School in Healesville is now online. The system was installed by Healesville Community Renewable Energy using part of a $90,000 grant provided by the Federal Government in 2020. Yarra Ranges Council provided invaluable support in terms… Read More »St Brigid’s Goes Solar!
