"The Goulburn Community Solar Farm has plugged into the grid, aiming to keep profits in the community.

The facility is owned by 288 local investors and is one of the country's largest community-owned solar farms."

Fantastic news, this community project will power 500 homes in the local district. Its projected that 'The Farm' will make a profit. The idea is to use the profits in this way, 25% to community funding as support for those struggling with power bills, 25% reinvested in sustaining 'The Farm" and 50% as dividends to the community investors.

http://goulburnsolarfarm.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Final-KS-Report.pdf

This project seems to be a mix of positive and negative- I can imagine the vicious infighting that must have occurred to get it off the ground with so many ideological parties, even after the red tape was dealt with. I'm not sure I would have wanted to be part of it and probably would have suggested that we fund a different community project with Traditionalist roots.

I like the idea that it is something that has ostensibly been created by members of the local community- I'm a big fan of localism- and it's advantages in self sufficiency, redundancy, community economies of scale, etc. But they are calling it a "social" project- usually dog whistling to Woke Marxist Socialist's. But yet they also talk in the report about "during the COVID shakedown"- perhaps a hat tip/ negotiating point to more Traditionalist elements within the coalition, maybe Teal like attributes (but Teal's often revert to Greens policy when it counts). Personally I wouldn't feel comfortable trusting a coalition with those who talk in terms of "'social' benefit" rather than community benefit or something that sounded more Traditionalist. Image often has an effect on reality...

Using government grants from garnishing tax payers money doesn't sound right in this case.

The technology doesn't sound like the right technology to me, possibly more difficult to scale than other energy technologies, requires high maintenance, high initial capital investment, it's a fixed inflexible infrastructure, etc, etc.

Often those that talk about Green technologies talk about the social benefits rather than the economic benefits, which suggests to me that the economic benefits are less convincing. Often the ambassadors of green technology know very little about engineering from talking with them

It's been said that the Liberal Party hasn't been a proper opposition party, because they haven't addressed the paradoxes inherent in the "state space" of Australia. And the reason for this is because they haven't addressed their own internal party "state space". One Nation has, and that's why it's brand is growing, while the Liberal Party's is shrinking. The Liberal Party has been pre-occupied with fashionable politics, and needs to return to core principles to survive. One Nation has a sound basis for growth, but there will still be growing pains due to scaling issues.