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Located in Leonards Hill, just south of Daylesford in Victoria - Australia's first community-owned wind farm...Now working on being the first hybrid wind, solar and battery cooperative

09/09/2026

When we first installed our local charging network the intent was social access for our local towns. The steep incline in the number of electric vehicles on the roads this year, is showing just how vital these community assets are.

Charging sessions at our EV Chargers went from 5,085 in the 2024-2025 financial year to 7,483, in the 2025-2026, representing a 47% increase..

07/09/2026

Every good piece of community infrastructure needs a name...

So we set out to find a name for our two turbines, running a competition in our local community...

Neve was the winner, naming the turbines Gale and Gusto.

Neve can be seen here at the official opening cutting a big blue ribbon around Gale in 2011.

05/09/2026

From markets to town halls to community events to neighbourhood houses to online webinars and one-on-one conversations, these organisations reached out to their communities to help them with electrifying their homes.

And in doing this they reached 56,958 stakeholders and engaged directly with 14,830 community members, across 258 events.

These are the results that community-led, place-based engagement delivers.

GV Community Energy Coalition for Community Energy

03/09/2026

The Home Energy Kits are now available to borrow from the Hepburn Shire Libraries (Daylesford, Creswick, Trentham and Clunes)...

The kits can be used to test the energy efficiency of your home. It comes with a guide that explains how to use all the tools.

Library members are able to place a hold online (centralhighlandslibraries.org.au) or in person by talking to a staff member.

They can be borrowed for 1 week.

Each Library has one kit.

02/09/2026

On 31 August 2025 we received funds from our first debenture to support the purchase of our first community battery, Bessie, at our community-owned Energy Park.

On Monday we paid our first round of debenture interest to 90 co-operative members. That's $65,700 in total that has gone straight back into the pockets of our members, a real example of community wealth building in action.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to the debenture, which raised $1.09 million towards this project.

Photo: Members of the Hepburn Energy Cooperative standing in front of Bessie, the community owned battery at our AGM last year.

01/09/2026

From 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026 our four EV Chargers were utilised 7,483 times. This equates to an average of 20.5 sessions every day.

The most utilised charger was the Hepburn Springs Bathhouse one, with 2,665 sessions (728 more than last financial year) equating to 35.6% of all sessions.

We saw the number of charging sessions in March - June rise above the monthly average following the start of the fuel crisis.

30/08/2026

Did you know that Hepburn Energy (formerly Hepburn Wind) has been generating power from wind for over 15 years now?

As we look back on what we have achieved in the last 15 years, we are going to share some photos that make up this time...

As a community owned cooperative, members were invited out to the farm to see the construction of the wind turbines. They brought their chairs, their picnics and their binoculars to witness this historical moment where we became the first community owned wind farm in Australia.

28/08/2026

During 2025 and 2026, six community organisations led a Community Electrification Engagement Program thanks to funding from Sustainability Victoria.

Sustainability Victoria provided $660,000 in funding across these six organisations.

These community organisations leveraged this funding to deliver $2.79 million in social and monetary value through events, communications and one-on-one consultations, equating to an average leveraged ratio of 4.2:1

These are the results that community-led, place-based engagement delivers.

GV Community Energy Coalition for Community Energy

26/08/2026

19/08/2026

Continuing the Hepburn Shire electricity usage stats (See previous post for other stats)...

The total electricity usage for Hepburn Shire from 1 July 2024 - 30 June 2025 was 101,022 mega watt hours...

The breakdown...

Grid 66,637 mega watt hours

Rooftop solar 25,846 mega watt hours

Wind 8,539 mega watt hours

As a shire we have come a long way in using more renewable energy, with the percentage of renewable energy use increasing year on year since 2018...

And we still have a ways to go in increasing our use of renewable energy, what are you doing to increase your use of renewable energy?

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Leonards Hill, VIC

Website

http://www.hepburnenergy.coop/, https://calendar.app.google/oKHADjMHvHWQZqRC6

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