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'Nestled in the foothills of the Australian Alps is a small town with huge
energy ambitions.
Yackandandah, a 25-minute drive south of the Murray in north-east Victoria on
Jaithmathang country, has its sights set on being entirely powered by
renewables by 2024.
Behind this lofty goal is a volunteer-run grassroots group called Totally
Renewable Yackandandah, or TRY.
TRY's been working on boosting Yackandandah's renewable energy generation since
its inception just eight years ago, when a group of locals banded together to
reduce the town's carbon emissions, increase the reliability of the network,
and save residents and businesses some money.
At the time, they set themselves the target of having the town, affectionately
called Yack, be totally renewable by 2022.
While they won't hit that goal, an impressive 60 per cent of the town's
electricity supply today comes from renewable sources. And they're not done
yet.
Juliette Milbank, president of TRY, says Yackandandah's renewables efforts have
attracted "enormous interest from other towns all over Australia, and the
occasional enquiry even from overseas".
So how did Yack get to 60 per cent in under a decade, and what will it take to
hit its 100 per cent renewable target?'
Note: I hold shares of Indigo Power.
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
