After a two-and-a-half year community campaign, the Andrews government announced Victorian Renewable Energy Targets of 25 percent by 2020 and 40 percent by 2025. Community groups, unions, industry, and renewable energy companies welcomed the initiative.

Y2R members recently had the pleasure of seeing Greg Barber’s (MP) solar setup on a sunny Sunday afternoon. His household is the first in Victoria to have installed the Tesla Powerwall battery – a home battery system which stores electricity from solar panels.

A new wind farm was opened in Victoria as the Andrews government prepares to release its Renewable Energy Action Plan, which will set Renewable Energy Targets for the state.

A new Friends of the Earth report has found Victoria can hit an ambitious state Renewable Energy Target of 30 percent by 2020.

The community campaign for a Victorian Renewable Energy Target that has been building for more than two years is coming to a head.

In early March, Yes 2 Renewables visited Melbourne Town Hall to brief city councillors about our campaign for ambitious Victorian Renewable Energy Targets.

In March, Yes 2 Renewables jumped on the train to Brighton to meet Richard Martin, managing director of AEES Group–a renewable energy and efficiency company founded in 2014.

Voices from regional Victoria are calling for the Andrews government to back ambitious Renewable Energy Targets and protect farmland from the threat of coal exploration.

Woodend has entered the race to 100 percent renewable energy with a 30-kilowatt community-owned solar project.

Victorian Planning Minister Richard Wynne has signalled the approval of the Dundonell wind farm in the minister’s assessment report–the final stage in the environmental effects statement process.