TKOG Strategy

to improve Kyneton and Woodend's energy use by:

Reducing electricity use from brown coal generators
Reducing the cost of electricity to Kyneton and Woodend residents
Locally integrating solar PV, wind turbine, biodiesel and biomass renewable power generation
Install and increase local base load generators to provide combined heat and power to the community power trust (eg: Kyneton Hospital or other community businesses)
Locally load balance the power demands of residents and business with the power supplied by the local generator mix
Use grid supplied power as a supplier of last resort
Plow profits generated from the community owned business back into infrastructure and additional generation capacity

BHAG: Move as many houses as possible onto local generation, with a reduction in overall power costs and emissions per resident.

Actions:

CommunityPower: Get Bendigo Bank to manage the financial arrangements (good for PR, community engagement, trade of carbon credits)

Get the Macedon Ranges Council to commit to a real alternative. This islanding of the Kyneton grid is the only way that medium scale wind turbines can benefit Victoria!

Obtain funds from the Victorian Sustainability Grants to support the project (and use my payroll tax for good, rather than to advantage the few)

Methods:

Local power generation and management, with grid connected backup
Main diesel generator to be partly powered by a co-located biodiesel plant which will use waste oil from the town and tallow from the animal processing plants. Most probably this would be located at the Kyneton Hospital
Additional generator could be located at the industrial precinct which could be run on biogas generated from the landfill site and woody green waste
Capture and use of thermal waste from the power generation to heat water for the town.
Transmission and management through a system of "Private Wires" through the town.
Expertise harnessed and expanded from local resources and universities (Kyneton Hospital and Ballarat University)
Oversight by a board of unpaid, non-aligned volunteers drawn from the community
Sponsorship by alturistic, community focussed organisations (eg: Bendigo Bank)
Victorian State Government Sponsorship through the Sustainability Grants

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