This two hour video was recorded on Monday 12 October 2020. It consists of three parts: an introduction by the President of Healesville CoRE, Jeff Barlow; this is followed by the first speaker, Ben McGowan from Indigo Power; second speaker, Matthew Charles-Jones from Mondo and Totally Renewable Yackandandah; third speaker, Julian Guess from the Sustainability unit at Yarra Ranges Council.
Due to a technical problem with Jeff’s video camera, his image appears as a still rather than a moving image.
Ben McGowan, Indigo Power.
This was recorded at a Healesville CoRE webinar, “The Healesville Energy Revolution is Here!” on Monday 12 October 2020.
Ben explains the origins of Indigo Power as a community owned energy provider and launches the Healesville Community Energy Hub through which residents in Healesville and surrounding postcodes can sign up to purchase their electricity from Indigo Power, which returns 50% of profits to the community.
Matthew Charles-Jones from Mondo and from Totally Renewable Yackandandah.
This was recorded at a Healesville CoRE webinar, “The Healesville Energy Revolution is Here!” on Monday 12 October 2020.
Matt addresses the changing face of energy production, storage and distribution in Australia, from a centralized to an emerging decentralized model and the place of micro grids, distributed energy and community energy in this transformation.
Julian Guess from Yarra Ranges Council Sustainability Unit.
This was recorded at a Healesville CoRE webinar, “The Healesville Energy Revolution is Here!” on Monday 12 October 2020.
Julian addresses the achievements of the Yarra Ranges Council in working towards net zero with its own energy needs, the development of solar farms on old sealed tip sites and the development of a biochar facility at Coldstream.