Energise Gloucester Newsletters & Updates

Energise Gloucester Newsletter No 28

Oct 5, 2022

Dear Members, Energise Gloucester is still active – but the plans for our solar farm are changing. It was very disappointing to be finally told by Essential Energy that we could not ...

Energise Gloucester Newsletter No 27

Mar 19, 2022

Dear Members, Last year as you know our AGM was delayed due to the COVID crisis. We have now rescheduled this for Thursday, 28 April 2022 . This will be held at 5:00 pm in Senior Citizens Ce...

Energise Gloucester Notice of Annual General Meeting

Mar 9, 2022

Dear Members, Notice is hereby given that Energise Gloucester will hold its 2022 AGM on Thursday. 28 April in the Senior Citizens Hall, Hume Street, Gloucester . The AGM will be at 5pm fo...

Energise Gloucester Newsletter No 26

Nov 25, 2021

Dear Members, The Energise Gloucester Committee is preparing to re-commence some of our projects as the Covid restrictions ease.  No public meetings yet, so the Annual General Meeting ha...

Energise Gloucester Newsletter No 25

Sep 6, 2021

Dear Members, Unfortunately, progress on the solar farm has been slow over the last few months and has taken up a lot of our time. We are now waiting for an agreement from the Department of P...

Energise Gloucester Update July 2021

Jul 9, 2021

Dear Members, We have completed Milestone 2 for the Solar Farm and submitted our report to the Regional Community Energy Fund program team for review. This includes information on the Co-op reg...

Energise Gloucester Update April 2021

Apr 20, 2021

Dear Members, Behind the scenes, your Energise Gloucester Committee has been busy! Being part of the Community Energy network in Australia is important as it helps us keep up to date with id...

Solar Farm Update Feb 2021

Feb 12, 2021

Dear Members, Energise Gloucester (EG) is making good progress with our Community Solar Farm and on track to commence construction later this year. Process Since teaming with Komo Energy ...

Energise Gloucester Newsletter No 24

Nov 28, 2020

Dear Members, It’s time to update you on Energise Gloucester activities.  Unfortunately, progress has been slow over the last few months, but things are happening as you will see i...

Energise Gloucester Newsletter No 23

Aug 11, 2020

Dear Members, We are very pleased to let you know that despite the restrictions caused by COVID-19, we have been able to make good progress on several of our projects. We are making rea...

Energise Gloucester Solar Farm Update

Jun 4, 2020

Dear Members, Energise Gloucester is moving forward on the Solar Farm and the Committee is seeking support from members that could help us in some areas. We are particularly interested in suppo...

Energise Gloucester Newsletter No 22

May 12, 2020

Dear Members, Our Solar Farm Project has gone into hibernation after our cancelled public launch because of COVID19. We are eagerly waiting for the time when the Government will allow us t...

Energise Gloucester April 2020 Update

Apr 2, 2020

Dear Members, Unfortunately, the Coronavirus pandemic has made it impossible for Energise Gloucester to hold public meetings so work on the Solar Farm project has virtually stopped for a month ...

Energise Gloucester Newsletter No 21

Mar 11, 2020

Energise Gloucester has received a grant of $460,000 from the NSW Regional Community Energy Fund (RCEF) being almost half the cost of building the Solar Farm. We will need to raise ...

Energise Gloucester Newsletter No 20

Feb 25, 2020

There hasn't been a Newsletter for a while as we have been waiting to hear about our application for a grant from the NSW Regional Community Energy Fund (RCEF). We are still waiting but have good ...

Energise Gloucester Newsletter No 19

Nov 1, 2019

Dear Members, By now we had hoped to be telling you about our success with a grant for the Community Solar Farm. However, the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment is still asses...

Energise Gloucester Newsletter No 18

Sep 1, 2019

Dear Members, Our last Newsletter provided information about our Grant Application to the NSW Government Regional Community Energy Fund. The outcome of this will be known in September so we are...

Energise Gloucester Newsletter No 17

May 1, 2019

Dear Members, Energise Gloucester has submitted its application to the NSW Government for its Community Solar Farm. If successful, the grant will enable us to build a 500kW solar farm close to ...

Energise Gloucester Newsletter No 16

Mar 1, 2019

Dear Members, This is an Election Issue. Energise Gloucester asked each candidate for the NSW Electorate of Upper Hunter a set of questions about their support for renewable community energy...

Energise Gloucester Newsletter No 15

Jan 1, 2019

Happy New Year to You All 2019 will be important for Energise Gloucester as we seek to bring several new projects into operation and continue to explore opportunities for community energy. 2...

Energise Gloucester Newsletter No 14

Nov 1, 2018

Dear Members, Welcome to our last Newsletter for 2018. We wish you all a very happy festive season. It has been an exciting year for Energise Gloucester and we have some great plans for 2019. ...

Energise Gloucester Newsletter No 13

Sep 30, 2018

Despite the delay in this Newsletter, Energise Gloucester has been busy. The BWNG solar roof project is operating well and we now have real-time data on generation and usage. See the data in th...

Energise Gloucester Newsletter No 12

Mar 31, 2018

At long last, the solar panels on the Neighbourhood Centre are generating electricity. On Friday 4 May we had a launch of this project as reported below. Community Energy is regularly in the news ...

Energise Gloucester Newsletter No 11

Feb 1, 2018

Great excitement! Finally, the solar PV panels are installed on the roof of the Neighbourhood Centre. We have encountered frustrating delays over the last couple of months as we waited for th...

Energise Gloucester Newsletter No 10

Nov 1, 2017

Season's Greetings to you all. What a great first year we have had as you can see from our project updates. Not resting on our laurels, your EG Committee is planning a number of new publ...

Energise Gloucester Newsletter No 9

Sep 1, 2017

We are one year old; last week we held our first Annual General Meeting (AGM) and in preparation you have received all the Annual Reports. We are at present busy finalising the details and constru...

Energise Gloucester Newsletter No 8

Jul 1, 2017

This month many electricity tailers have increased the price they pay to households for solar feed-in tariff. This is because of a recommendation by IPART to the NSW Government. The recommendat...

Energise Gloucester Newsletter No 7

Jun 1, 2017

Energise Gloucester is pleased to announce that the solar project on the roof of the Neighbourhood Centre is at the stage of seeking donations or loans to fund it. We are excited about this projec...

Energise Gloucester Newsletter No 6

May 1, 2017

Welcome to members who have joined recently. Over the past month, we have continued to develop three projects as indicated below. We will be applying to Mid Coast Council for a grant under thei...

Energise Gloucester Newsletter No 5

Apr 1, 2017

The highlight for Energise Gloucester this month was our second Public Information Night. Over 50 people took the opportunity to come and ask questions, express their concerns and to discu...

Energise Gloucester Newsletter No 4

Mar 1, 2017

The Gloucester Sustainability Convention was a great opportunity to chat with a number of you and to attend some great sessions about Community Energy and related topics. We welcome a number of ne...

Energise Gloucester Newsletter No 3

Feb 1, 2017

Welcome to our third Newsletter. The Energise Gloucester (EG) Committee is quite busy with a number of activities, the details of some of these are presented in the articles below. An exciting dev...

Energise Gloucester Newsletter No 2

Jan 14, 2017

This is our second newsletter and we hope you find it informative. Any feedback or comments will be appreciated and can be sent to the editor@energisegloucester.org.au . Energise Gloucester is...

Energise Gloucester Newsletter No 1

Dec 19, 2016

Welcome to all Members. We certainly appreciate that you have joined and we hope that this Newsletter is the first of a regular monthly publication. It is our intention to put articles in the n...