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Matthew Charles-Jones being videoed by Gerald Wiblin for the Premiers Sustainability Awards

A local hero and finalists for a sustainability award


With the intensity of pandemic restrictions, home schooling and the chaos of border closure effects, a couple of achievements almost slipped by unnoticed. TRY’s Chairperson, cofounder and long-time renewable energy … Continue reading A local hero and finalists for a sustainability award

Posted on November 19, 2020July 2, 2021Author Juliette MilbankCategories NewsTags awards, VPP1 Comment

2020 AGM Round Up


TRY’s Annual General Meeting was held on the 21 October via an online forum, as was appropriate for the strange year that 2020 has been. It was kept short and … Continue reading 2020 AGM Round Up

Posted on October 30, 2020March 29, 2021Author Juliette MilbankCategories NewsTags AGMLeave a comment

A Local Power Plan for the regions


TRY has been one of many community groups contributing to a detailed plan for bringing renewable energy benefits to regional and rural areas. The article below appeared in the October/November … Continue reading A Local Power Plan for the regions

Posted on October 3, 2020March 29, 2021Author Juliette MilbankCategories NewsTags community energy, policyLeave a comment
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Supersizing a community battery


TRY and Indigo Power were on the PRIME7 News with the announcement of grant funding from the Victorian Government for our first community-scale battery storage facility, Yack01. We were very … Continue reading Supersizing a community battery

Posted on October 2, 2020March 29, 2021Author Juliette MilbankCategories NewsTags Battery storage, Indigo PowerLeave a comment

2020 Annual General Meeting


The 2020 TRY Inc. AGM will be held onWednesday, October 21st, at 7.30pm [Edit: The AGM Agenda is available here] This will be an on-line meeting, via Zoom, in line … Continue reading 2020 Annual General Meeting

Posted on September 18, 2020March 29, 2021Author Juliette MilbankCategories NewsTags AGM2 Comments
A screenshot of the Royal Auto article

RACV’s People Power


Matthew Charles-Jones, TRY Chairperson, was recently interviewed for an article on three Victorian community’s efforts to power up in different ways: the communities were Yackandandah, Hepburn Shire, Preston in Melbourne, … Continue reading RACV’s People Power

Posted on July 1, 2020March 29, 2021Author Juliette MilbankCategories NewsTags mediaLeave a comment
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Looking at reliability


TRY’s chair Matt Charles-Jones was a guest on ABC Radio Melbourne’s The Conversation Hour yesterday, discussing grid reliability and energy options with Warwick Long. He appeared alongside Tony Wood (Grattan … Continue reading Looking at reliability

Posted on June 26, 2020March 29, 2021Author Juliette MilbankCategories NewsTags media, reliabilityLeave a comment
Two women and two men stand in front of some batteries and inverters holding a golden yak

Community-scale pumped hydro & battery storage


Great excitement today as TRY was successful with a grant application to the Regional and Remote Communities Reliability Fund, setting us up for determining the best community-scale generation and storage … Continue reading Community-scale pumped hydro & battery storage

Posted on June 5, 2020March 29, 2021Author Juliette MilbankCategories NewsTags grants, scaled storageLeave a comment
Kim McConchie leaning on a gate at his property outside Yackandandah

Blog: Member profile, Kim McConchie


Kim McConchie is the TRY secretary, has a degree in Applied Science in chemistry, and used to drive one of the very first electric vehicles in the 1980’s (his employer, … Continue reading Blog: Member profile, Kim McConchie

Posted on March 8, 2020March 29, 2021Author Juliette MilbankCategories Blog, Member profileTags Kim McConchie4 Comments
Fire races up Bears Hill just outside Wodonga in north-east Victoria

Blog: The power to rebuild


Matt Grogan reflects on the challenges and opportunities that face regional communities in the wake of a fiery summer. This summer’s devastating bushfires show us once again that regional communities … Continue reading Blog: The power to rebuild

Posted on January 16, 2020March 29, 2021Author Juliette MilbankCategories BlogTags bushfires, community energy5 Comments

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