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We'll have a table at the St John's fête on Saturday Jan 24th, so why not drop in and say 'hi'? Find out about our latest plans for a Flinders Virtual Energy Network , home batteries, our upcoming forum: Solar and Batteries: is now the time? , and more. See you at St John's church, Saturday morning.

We are inviting you to join the Flinders Virtual Energy Network !   And before we go any further, we will have an information   table outside the Flinders General Store this Saturday (Dec 20th)  from about 8:30 to 11ish.  Drop by and say 'hi'!   Why a VEN? Well: you might get a kick out of being able to share or sell any excess solar   energy  you have with other Flinders residents or businesses; you might get a better price than whatever measly feed-in tariff  you currently

At yesterday's FZCC committee meeting (Nov 11th) we had a good chat about Virtual Energy Networks (VENs) with 7 or 8 members joining the meeting to discuss. The strong feeling was that we should go ahead and set up a VEN for Flinders, so we'll do that and let you know how to get involved soon. Meanwhile, if you missed yesterday's meeting, here are the slides (sorry, probably don't make a lot of sense on their own!). Here is the AI generated video that we showed which, in s

Our AGM was held on Nov 11, 2025. 14 members attended, with 3 apologies. It was followed by an FZCC Committee meeting in which we spoke about Virtual Energy Networks (see next news post). The formal outcomes of the meeting were: Jon Pearce & Ralph Kenyon re-elected as Co-conveners. Mark Aarons re-elected as Secretary Richard Atkinson elected as Treasurer. General committee members: Leigh Glover Bernard Daly Neville Wale Congrats to all!

Don't forget: Tues 11th, 5 PM - venue now changed to: Meeting Room, Flinders Civic Hall, 54-56 Cook Street, Flinders Not only a very brief AGM but also a chance to find out about our new Virtual Energy Network project for Flinders. If you are planning to come, please RSVP here  so that we can be sure that we have space and maybe offer a little refreshment! Here's the Agenda:   FZCC Annual General Meeting (2024/2025 ending June 30) Agenda Tuesday November 11th 2025 Venue: Fl

On Saturday Sept 6th we ran our Community 'round table' style workshop to discuss ideas to further our zero carbon aims. We heard about...

We’re inviting you to a Community Workshop  where we can bounce ideas off each other, share suggestions, and meet like-minded folk. ...

You might have seen the full-page article in the Westernport News (11th June, p.4) or other local publications entitled “ Council must...

Repower  are running a free webinar on Monday 26th May  demonstrating the amazing tool Repower and Save . This  highly interactive tool...

What fun our EV forum was a couple of weeks ago! But if you missed it, no worries. You can download Bryce Gaton's slides here , and...

Don't miss this! We are holding a forum all about Electric Vehicles in the Flinders Civic hall on Easter Saturday (April 19th). Come...

We are enthusiastic about helping more people to enjoy the benefits of solar on their houses. So if you already have solar panels, why...

This SwitchedOn podcast is well worth listening to! Entitled " So you want to install a community battery? Village Power’s battle to get...

Don't miss it - it's on right now! If you're reading this on Saturday morning, that is. FZCC has a stand there with people you can chat...

We have an innovative programme running at present in which some of our FZCC members are happy to invite other Flinders residents into...

We are enthusiastic about helping more people to enjoy the benefits of solar on their houses. So if you already have solar panels, why...

Our community battery was officially launched by the Hon Josh Wilson, member for Fremantle and Assistant Minister for Climate Change and...

All is in place for our launch at 10 am this Tuesday! In case you are interested, here is some information about the battery's artwork:...

10 - 11.30 am ,Tuesday 29th October, 2024 Our community battery will be officially launched by Josh Wilson, the federal Assistant...

...and our battery has been installed after just 2 weeks of digging, concreting and constructing! Yes, the installation happened today...