This community's situation before they created change:
When TRY was formed in 2014, climate change was on the minds of some local residents. There was a strong desire to tackle the issue of climate change, but also a realisation that this could provide opportunities for the town via economic benefits and network reliability. We had positive plans that the community together could undertake transformative change. For us, action was the solution!
Technology provided a vehicle and an opportunity for TRY and Yackandandah to write our own script. To not be hostage to a partisan climate debate. And rather than using words to frame an argument, TRY has crafted a solution in actions. The result has not only reduced the town’s emissions, but saved residents money, lowered costs for community groups, given resilience to key facilities in case of power outages, and driven formative research on improving the reliability of the local grid and how renewables can be better incorporated into it. In so doing, we’ve demonstrated what can be done.
Rather than using words, … TRY has crafted a solution in actions
As a community we wanted to tackle Climate Change and transition to becoming 100% renewable energy. The local government and policy makers were too slow to take action, so we decided people power was a more effective way to create the change we wanted to see, in the time frame we wanted to see it.
