New Video – Lismore Community Solar

With the Support of the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, and the filming team, Oren Siedler and Michael Balson, project partners, Lismore City Council we are pleased to share this educational and promotional video for the Farming the Sun project – Lismore...

Winton going geothermal

The outback Queensland Shire of Winton will soon power all of its local government buildings and infrastructure using locally sourced renewable energy, after the council waved through plans to build two geothermal plants with a total 300kW capacity. It is part of an...

Thursday Forum: It’s a gas!

It’s a gas!  Greenhouse gases – sources, potency, half life…. Thursday, August 6th, 7pm, Kent House The first Thursday of August, the popular Sustainable Living Armidale (SLA) Forum will focus on greenhouse gas emissions. This is apt because each country is...

Launch of National Wind Monitoring Program

LAUNCH DETAILS 10:30am | Wednesday 22 July 2015 Curtis Park | Armidale Open to the Public|No RSVP required New England Wind would like to invite you to the launch of an exciting new national wind monitoring program for community windfarms, using state-of-the-art SODAR...

Could this be the New England’s first Windfarm?

Chinese wind energy giant Goldwind has announced it will begin construction of the 175MW White Rock wind farm in northern NSW in November, the second big wind farm to get the go-ahead since the revised renewable energy target legislation passed the Senate last month....

Australia’s community-led renewable energy sector

The past few years have been exhilarating in the world of renewable energy technology. The global price of solar PV has plummeted, while electric cars have gone from cramped novelties that might just get you to the supermarket and back, to work-horses that can take...