Everyone living, playing, and working in Alpine Shire has a role to play in reducing carbon emissions and helping to ensure the local communities can adapt to the impacts of a changing climate.
Community Climate Action Roadmap
As part of the Climate Emergency declaration, we developed a roadmap for community climate action.
The objective of the roadmap is to inform the future development of a Community Climate Action Plan, which supports our communities to reduce their emissions and adapt to a changing climate.
If you would still like to have your say on how we can better prepare our Alpine communities for a climate conscious future, please contact us.
Community Energy and EV Charging Prospectus
The Community Energy and EV Charging Prospectus identifies ten community facilities that we own, manage, tenant, or maintain that are suitable for future community energy and public EV charging infrastructure.
The Prospectus was developed to ensure that we have a number of investment-ready community scale battery sites and public EV charging sites to help us seek funding for this infrastructure as grant opportunities or commercial investment opportunities arise.
Community energy and public EV charging infrastructure projects have the potential to:
- Improve resilience by providing backup power to host sites that can provide a community service during emergency events and power outages;
- Deliver locally generated renewable energy to local communities;
- Provide cost savings to the host site's electricity bills;
- Provide network benefits through the battery exporting during peak demand times to assist with low voltage issues on the network;
- Facilitate uptake of zero emissions vehicles; and
- Provide the innovation to establish the business case for the delivery of community batteries at council-owned sites in regional Victoria.