Image: A solar residential install purchased through the Healesville Community Battery and Solar Offer: featuring Fronius inverter and Mondo Ubi device (May 2019)

Healesville CoRE’s Community Solar Panels & Battery Offer is proving to be very popular with over 90 residents having expressed their interest and systems are now being quoted and installed. It is not too late so if you are interested please get in touch by expressing your interest via our website. 
 

Image: The first residential install of a Reclaim Energy Co2 Heat Pump hot watersystem purchased through Healesville CoRE’s bulk buy program (July 2019)

After our very successful launch of this Bulk Buy on 27 July 2019, for the Healesville and surrounding community, enquiries are now flowing in. Quotes have been provided, with two systems installed already and others have applied for Government Rebates prior to installation.

If you are interested and would like further information go to our website for a no obligation expression of interest.

You love romance novels, bodice rippers, airport thrillers, detective stories, adventure novels? All this and more in our new-format Annual Report with lots of photos and information about where we have come from, what we have achieved and where we are going.

A must read for every Healesville community member who wants to be well informed about our history, our vision, our work and our ambitions!!

Next Rebates Available 2 September 2019

You will be pleased to hear that the Victorian Government has now changed its policy on Solar Rebates. The disastrous system introduced in July 2019 saw all the Rebates for the month gone in 3 days. In August they were all gone in 2 hours!! This devastated the work flow for solar installers and made it nigh impossible for people to successfully apply.

But the good news is the Government has now significantly increased the number of Rebates available and now releases a new batch of Rebates every two weeks instead of once a month. For more information on Rebates and Government Solar Loans check out the Victorian Government website

Each year Healesville CoRE supports Sustainable House Day! Are you interested in how others are building sustainable homes or transforming existing dwellings using passive design, modern materials, renewable energy etc?

You can visit and talk to the owners at Sustainable House Day, which is here once again on 15 September 2019. There is one house open in Healesville and another in Toolangi, both from 10.00am to 4.00pm. To get details go to: https://sustainablehouseday.com/ where you can get the addresses and other details. Homes are being added all the time so check out availability a day or two beforehand to confirm which homes you would like to visit. The house at Toolangi was on Grand Designs last week and can be seen on Foxtel.

Have your Say with Yarra Ranges Council’s Climate Change Survey & See their New Video!

Council is wanting to hear your views on Climate Change and what you think they can be doing to be more effective for the community. Not much time left now as the online survey, with three short questions, closes on 31 August at 5.00pm, so be quick and  have your say.

Also take a look on that same web page at the Council-made video which outlines all the great energy saving and other sustainability initiatives Council has been taking, with solar installations on council buildings, tree plantings over the past 10 years, LED lighting, street lights and much more. Great work being done and the video is really worth watching!