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🧵22 june marks @hepburnwind's 10th anniversary of generating clean energy!

since the very first kWh sent into the grid ten years ago, gale & gusto, the two turbines of australia's first community-owned wind farm have generated more than 100,000,000 kWh!

here's how it happened:
in 2004 a developer proposed the clarkes hill wind farm, about 30km from #daylesford.

a number of daylesford locals went along to the dean town hall for a "community consultation", excited to hear all about it.

but when they arrived, the atmosphere was hostile, almost violent!
the developer was run out of town & the anti-wind mob — themselves largely from out of town — celebrated a "victory".

the daylesford crew left the meeting devastated that the community's first response was knee-jerk opposition.

on the way home they promised to change the story.
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