In 2014, a small group in Goulburn began pursuing a community-owned solar farm; 12 years later, 300 mostly local investors had raised $3.3 million and the 1.4MW plant with a 4MWh battery opened
A small group of Goulburn residents gathered around kitchen tables in late 2014 to discuss a simple idea: making their own clean electricity. Twelve years later, that discussion became Australia’s first community-owned solar farm paired with a large-scale battery. The 1.4-megawatt facility, backed by a four-megawatt-hour battery, officially opened on an old industrial site on … Read more