The facts about the South Australian Blackout What happened in South Australia on Wednesday 28th September? A one-in-50 year weather event hit South Australia with severe thunderstorms and damaging winds exceeding 90 km/h. Hail the...

There are so many reasons that the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, or ARENA, should have a bigger and stronger role in building Australia's clean energy future. But instead, the government wants to cut $1.3...

AWA member and wind farm neighbour Dimity Taylor joined an inspiring line up of speakers at a snap rally in front of the COAG meeting last Friday. Organised by Friends of the Earth, the...

When Planning Departments put projects out into the public domain, they expect to hear mostly from objectors. Not a bundle of laughs, but pretty much what they’ve come to expect. When the first public...

- Andrew Bray, RE-Alliance National Director While the scale of the power that wind farms generate is not always clear, they're probably producing more than you'd think. A friend recently had someone say to...

Given the jobs and income that wind farms deliver for rural Australia, it's been a bit of a mystery that wind hasn't enjoyed more support from the 'party of the bush', the Nationals. With...

A group of around 25 community members from the Yass and Goulburn regions took part in a wind farm tour organised by the Australian Wind Alliance. A wide cross section of the local community...

Farmers and regional communities call for others to follow ACT's lead on wind 4th March 2016 It’s time for state and territory governments to step up support of large-scale renewable energy projects in Australia,...

AWA members and farmers, Linda and Paul Cavanagh and I travelled to Queanbeyan on Monday to meet with NSW Minister and local member for Monaro, John Barilaro. As Mr Barilaro is the Minister for...

With three wind farm projects on New England’s regional development horizon for over a decade now - White Rock, Sapphire and Glen Innes - the region’s community and business leaders are more than ready...

Is the Wind Farm Commissioner on mission creep? The Australian Wind Alliance has called on the country’s Wind Commissioner to protect its independence and ensure it isn’t used as a tool to block development....

One of the areas in Australia likely to see significant wind farm construction in coming years is the Southern Tablelands area of NSW around Yass and Goulburn. There are at least eight advanced wind...

With the mining boom now at an end, Australia is grappling with a sharp jobs contraction in the coal, gas and resources sectors. As thousands of workers contemplate their futures, many of those in...

Senate Inquiry’s witchhunt against wind threatens investment in regional Australia IDEOLOGICAL and unbalanced attacks like the one delivered by the Senate wind enquiry's report threaten the massive economic benefits regional Australia is set to...

The media loves controversy. The public loves it. Politicians and lobbyists alike use controversy to stall, scuttle and direct any debate or outcome to suit their purposes. But few things on our national agenda...

The town of Ararat is celebrating today with the announcement that the 75 turbine Ararat Wind Farm will commence construction next month. For many years, Ararat has been a fervent supporter of wind energy,...

Abbott's anti-wind brigade reach new lows Today, a government committed to cutting red tape agreed to add extra red tape to the operations of a internationally thriving industry. Ideas such as a new Windfarm...

The Australian Wind Alliance is one of 51 diverse groups calling for Australia to transition quickly to a low carbon future - including  renewables - or be hurt economically. Representatives of the groups met...

Australian Wind Alliance national coordinator Andrew Bray fronted the Senate Select Committee on Wind Turbines public hearing in Canberra this week and challenged the committee to be constructive, not destructive. He was joined on...

When John DeGroote and Charlie Prell spoke up for small business and farming in the Goulburn region at a Senate hearing in Canberra earlier this week they knew they had many people behind them....

The nightmare that was the RET Review is over. As of the 18th May we have a bipartisan agreement of 33,000GW by 2020 with no biannual reviews and the inclusion of biomass still to...

Submission to the Senate Wind Inquiry Here's the full thing and here's the exec summary: The Australian Wind Alliance is a not-for-profit, community-based advocacy group to promote wind power. We have over 450 financial...

When the current Senate Inquiry into Wind Turbines was launched it showed every sign of being an attack on wind farms and a launching pad for increased regulation of an already heavily regulated industry....

Time for parties to step up on wind energy The electorate of Goulburn has as much to gain from future wind farm development as any electorate in the state.  

CEFC says renewable energy taken back 12 years by Abbott Government The Australian Wind Alliance said there’s further proof today that the Abbott Government has gutted the renewable energy industry.  The Clean Energy Finance...

With the NSW state election only around two months away, the issue of wind power and renewable energy is appearing on the radar of politicians and voters alike, particularly in regional NSW where renewable...

Actually, this guy is no ordinary farmer. He's one of our NSW organisers, Charlie Prell, who runs a sheep farm in Crookwell, north of Goulburn in NSW. And the other people in the video...

ALP policy to fix Victoria’s wind farm laws good for farmers and small businesses but could go further The Australian Wind Alliance today welcomed the ALP’s commitment to fix parts of the Victorian wind...

Our thanks to Matt Grudnoff from the Australia Institute for this excellent summary of where the government finds itself after dumping their deeply unpopular and flawed Warburton Review. Cross posted with permission from The...

Labor needs to help Australia aim higher on RET Andrew Bray from the Australian Wind Alliance has said today that he's disappointed Labor is willing to compromise on aspects on the renewable energy target,...

The Victorian Wind Alliance today expressed disappointment that the government’s review into renewable energy will give no consideration to the most important impacts of renewable energy in country Victoria – jobs and investment. The...

Friday 29 November 2013 This afternoon, a band of eager VicWind members were treated to a tour to the Macarthur Wind Farm in South West Victoria. Site manager, Shaun Harrison was the tour guide,...

The fight to get back Waubra's name moved into the offices of local politicians when a group of Waubra community leaders met with Senator John Madigan in Ballarat to ask him to back their...

The community of the small farming town of Waubra in Western Victoria took an important step forward today and sent off a petition with 316 signatures to the anti-wind campaigning organisation, the Waubra Foundation,...

The Victorian Wind Alliance has called on the Waubra Foundation to immediately change its name to avoid further denigration of an entire community by associating them with a disease that does not exist.

Portland-region VicWind supporters and members rallied to boost the morale of the local wind sector at a meeting in the town on Tuesday. Twenty small businesspeople, wind workers, renewable energy advocates, environmentalists and trainers...

The video series Waubra: The Way The Wind Blows was a way for the residents of Waubra to have their say on wind energy. In these videos you will meet some of these down-to-earth...

Monday 12th August Around 25 VicWind members gathered in Ballarat to hear the latest research on wind farm planning and health issues from experts in the field. Farmers from wind districts around Ballarat, wind...

Few people have been involved with the construction of Australian wind farms as long as Daryl O’Flaherty. Daryl’s an oversized pilot, by which I don’t mean he’s spent too long flying planes and drinking...

JASON “Grub” Bannam loves his job. Working as a welder on massive wind towers has taught the former postie many things, and he enjoys the camaraderie of his workplace, too. But he worries that...