Renewable Newstead invites residents & property owners in Newstead, Green Gully, Sandon, Joyces Creek, Muckleford, Welshmans Reef & surrounding areas to join us online this Wednesday July 1 at 7pm Hear about: the site proposed for… read more
Planning for Renewable Newstead
Renewable Newstead (RN) has chosen the company Energy Forms to help us develop a state government planning application for a local, small-scale solar farm to generate renewable energy for our community. Energy Forms will provide specialist planning… read more
MPs visit Newstead
Newstead hosted a visiting Parliamentary Committee as part of a State Government Inquiry into Climate Change on September 19. The committee, led by chairman and MP Darren Cheeseman, viewed the solar panels on the Newstead Pavilion at the Rec… read more
Nine News reports on RN’s project
Nine News Central Victoria covered our story on Sept 3, with this report. Energy for the People’s Tosh Szatow explains what’s going on. We don’t have any sites for a solar farm at all, contrary to what this report suggests. That… read more
Small Town, Big Switch: a report that shows how to make the impossible, possible
Renewable energy and lower power bills. People says it’s an impossible mix. Renewable Newstead’s model for switching to 100 per cent, locally generated renewable energy suggests otherwise. We released our report “Small Town, Big… read more
Want renewable energy in Newstead? Do this survey.
160 people attended our Feb 11 community gathering to hear retailer and renewable energy generator, Diamond Energy, present on how it could help Newstead switch to 100% renewable energy. Now we have to show them we’re serious. We have 560… read more
Newstead Needs You!
Newstead, Welshmans Reef, Green Gully, Muckleford South, Sandon, Joyces Creek – we need you – residents, businesses, one and all. Tomorrow, Feb 11, we’ll be presenting three ways Newstead and its immediate surrounds could switch to 100%… read more
RN Community Energy Project Goes to Market
The transition to renewable energy for communities across Victoria is about to accelerate with our flagship Victorian project “Renewable Newstead” seeking Expressions of Interest from the market to identify project partners and refine our plan… read more