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
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
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
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
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
TRY is seeking spaces to scale up to 100% As your local community energy group, TRY has worked hard at getting solar systems onto Yack rooftops with the awesome result … Continue reading Seeking solar sites
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
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
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
TRY recently participated in a podcast on community energy groups in north-east Victoria called Voices from the North East. With the final episode of the series now released, if you’re … Continue reading Voices from the North East
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
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
Great excitement was afoot in the Yackandandah Public Hall on Thursday night as the Yackandandah Community Energy Hub was launched! A full house listened to Cathy McGowan AO, Cr Jenny … Continue reading Community Energy Hub Launch
We had a terrific and intimate celebration in Yack today to flag the completion of 10 solar installations on public buildings, three of which have batteries. After five years of … Continue reading Launch of the Yackandandah virtual power plant
We had a second little celebration today, this one a very quiet affair out at the Kangaloola Wildlife Shelter – to celebrate the completion of a fund raising push (and … Continue reading Launching Kangaloola’s fantastic new battery system
TRY has documented some of the inspiring motivations and actions for our 100% target. Check out the following two videos which show how far we’ve come in 5 years. Yackandandah … Continue reading Check out TRY’s new Power to Change video
Keen to do more in your home to reduce your carbon footprint? Not sure where to start? Did you know that heating, cooling and water heating generally account for more … Continue reading TRY’s NEW Energy Coaching service!
Happy days for the Yack Public Hall after 5 years of concerted effort. The hall now has 11 kW of solar PV, and a premium SP Pro battery inverter, paired … Continue reading Public Hall solar and battery installation comes online
On July 30, Mondo won the Clean Energy Council’s prestigious Community Engagement Award for their partnership with TRY. The award recognises the commitment displayed by both parties in the pursuit … Continue reading Clean Energy Council Awards 2019
Indigo Power and Totally Renewable Yackandandah are conducting a Regional Bulk Buy of two energy-efficient hot water systems (HWS): Reclaim CO2 heat pumps and Apricus evacuated tube solar HWS. For … Continue reading Energy efficient hot water!
