Constituency questions
Eastern Victoria Region
Tom McINTOSH (Eastern Victoria) (12:40): (1510) My constituency question is for the Minister for Energy and Resources in the other place. Minister, what is the state government doing to ensure clean, affordable and reliable electricity for residents and community groups? I recently visited YMCA Victoria’s Camp Manyung at Mount Eliza to see the site of their new 88-kilowatt neighbourhood battery. This is one of a hundred neighbourhood batteries which are rolling out across Victoria, including 13 in the electorate of Eastern Victoria and one of six at Y discovery camps run by the YMCA. Camp Manyung has as many as 14,000 visitors every single year, and these batteries will help reduce power bills and meet the Y discovery camps’ target of being carbon-neutral by 2030. This battery is not only reducing their own costs and emissions but helping the wider community by passing on the financial benefits of lower power bills to the community through reduced fees to vulnerable and low-income students attending the camps.