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Here you’ll find the latest news from our team and our upcoming events. All our events are open to the community – we’d love to see you there. 

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ALL THINGS BATTERIES
Sunday 17th August 2025 – from 3:30pm to 6pm

Online via Zoom

Power Up Your Knowledge – and our Community!

Electrify Bundeena invites you to an interactive online information afternoon on all things battery storage – from home and community batteries to community virtual power plants and more.

Learn more About:

• The new Federal Government Rebate for home batteries

• Community Battery Models being  introduced

• Understanding VPPs – Virtual Power Plants

• How CVPPs could power your street

• Peer-to-peer energy trading: Sharing your solar

• Can your EV be your home battery? (Yes!)

🔌 It’s all free – and it’s all explained.

Let’s power up Bundeena!
Find the right battery solution for you – and learn how communities are taking energy into their own hands.

Event Program + Details

Join us for the whole afternoon or Zoom in for the talks you are interested in.

• 3:30pm – Home Battery – An Installers perspective - Rebates Explained
  Gene Roulstone, Level 2 Electrician with PowerGen, breaks down the Federal Government Rebate: what you can claim and how. What batteries to get and how it works with your solar.

• 4:00pm – Community Battery Models
  David Gilligan introduces what may be possible for Bundeena and how Community Batteries are being rolled out.

• 4:30pm – What Is a VPP?
  Scott Dovey shares his personal experience joining a Virtual Power Plant.

• 4:45pm – Short Break – grab a coffee and mingle online – the room will stay open (Host can take Questions)

• 5pm – What Is a CVPP?
  Vera Auerbach introduces the not-for-profit Community Virtual Power Plant concept.

• 5.15pm  Jonathan Crowther (Community Power Club) introduces Peer-to-Peer Trading – the next frontier in sharing solar.

• 5:45pm – Car as Battery? Bi-Directional Charging

Greg Walker explains using your EV as a home battery backup, when will it be possible?

How to Attend

To join the online meeting click here. Please note that the meeting does not start until 3:15pm on 17 August 2025.

Event Calendar

We’ve compiled this interactive Google Calendar so you can see our events and other relevant renewable, environment and electrification events that are happening. Use the drop down in the top right of the calendar to filter the events.

Past events

• Project Launch - 10 September 2023

• Mega Garage Sale Fundraiser - 17 September 2023

• Heat Pump Information Night - 17 October 2023

• Open Houses Day - 12 November 2023

• Solar PV and Batteries - 19 February 2024

• EV Taster Day - 28 April 2024

• Women and Renewables - 15 September 2024

• Gas or Electric? - 10 November 2024

Deb Guion, a Bundeena resident, is the proud winner of our recent Apricus Heat Pump Auction. For Ms Guion, getting a Heat Pump was just a natural progression towards having more control over the cost of the energy she uses and achieving a more sustainable lifestyle. 

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