Read the transcript for Episode 8 of the Voice of Real Australia podcast: Community Power Play: Locals Making Their Own Electricity

Tom Melville
Updated April 14 2021 - 4:39pm, first published 4:35pm

Tom Melville 0:01 When we flick a switch, a light comes on, then a pesky bill comes in the mail. For most of us, that's the beginning and the end of the story. Maybe you've got solar panels on your roof, so you're a bit more invested in the process, but you're in the minority. Until relatively recently, electricity generation was out of our hands... Beyond buying shares in a massive and probably foreign owned energy company... we were just consumers. But the way Australia produces electricity is changing, and that one-way, centralised model looks like it's changing, too. Throughout the country there are communities eager to be part of that movement. Community energy is when locals come together to generate their own electricity in their own backyard, primarily from renewable sources like solar. These projects provide cheaper, cleaner electricity while keeping the profits of power generation local.

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Tom Melville

Tom Melville

Host, Voice of Real Australia

Originally from Canberra, Tom Melville worked for the BBC in the UK and as a freelancer in Tunisia before coming to ACM. He is the host of ACM's national podcast Voice of Real Australia. urlgeni.us/VORAPod

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