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
Renewable Newstead (a project of Newstead 2021 Inc.) is seeking responses from suitably qualified and experienced parties to provide us with: Communication and Community Engagement services – click here to download the brief Planning and… read more
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
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
What will happen to power bills in Newstead if the town switches to renewable energy? RN has looked at the implications & we’re ready to put Newstead’s options for the big switch to the people of our community. So, we appeal… read more
Renewable Newstead cordially invites Newstead residents to an announcement about a key achievement in our Renewable Newstead project this Tuesday, Jan 16, 2018. The Member for Bendigo West, Maree Edwards, is due to make the announcement at 10am… read more
Will the Renewable Newstead project cut your household or business energy costs? And how will it work anyway? And what does hosting solar panels mean? Do you need to pay for them or… read more
Community group Newstead 2021 Inc and electricity distributor Powercor have met to consider options to switch the town to renewable energy as part of the Renewable Newstead project The partners will come together to meet the Australian Energy… read more
So far, we have engaged with the power distributor, Powercor, the company that owns the poles and wires that get electricity to us. We now know our town uses about 2,340,000 kWh of energy annually – that’s just the 400 or so homes and… read more