by @Laura2025 Laura Lynch on 05/11/2025 at 5:56 am
Thanks for setting up this page Heather. Copying over some resources from the DEECA website as a test and to share some helpful links:
The Knowledge Hub
DEECA had a research partnership with the Australian National University. This partnership created the Knowledge Hub. The hub has critical research and learnings on how to develop neighbourhood battery.
The Knowledge Hub is a one-stop shop of information. It provides a useful guide and support to all groups on neighbourhood batteries.
Yarra Energy Foundation Community Battery Resources

Explore a suite of webinars, reports, news, and updates about community batteries and the YESS project.

Yarra Energy Foundation community batteries

by @HeatherSmith Heather Smith on 18/09/2025 at 7:57 am
You can pre-order a copy now: https://lnkd.in/ef2T-asq. Use code POWER2025 for 30% off!
Here is a summary:

Chapter
Title
What’s Covered / Purpose

Preface
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Sets out the stakes: the promise of the energy transition, the existing inequities, and the risk that transition could replicate old injustices. (University of Chicago Press)

1
“An American Injustice”
Provides broad framing about who benefits/loses from past energy policies and why justice must be central going forward. (University of Chicago Press)

2
“Sacrifice Zones”
Details places with heavy environmental damage and how those zones are shaped by power, policy, and race/class divides. (University of Chicago Press)

3
“Beaten, Broken, Forgotten”
Focus on broken infrastructure, places left behind, people unable to access reliable electricity or being disproportionately harmed. (University of Chicago Press)

4
“Life Without Energy”
Looks at what happens when energy is unavailable or unaffordable — impacts on households, health, well‐being. (University of Chicago Press)

5
“Where New Technologies Don’t Go”
Shows how even promising clean technologies often miss or exclude certain communities. (Energy Justice Lab)

6
“Backyards and Ballots”
Explores how local politics, land use, and civic participation affect whether people’s lives are improved or harmed by energy transitions. (Energy Justice Lab)

7
“The Life Cycle of an Injustice”
Examines the full cycle of energy systems — from extraction, production, deployment, to disposal — and where injustices show up. (University of Chicago Press)

8
“The Uneasy, Uneven Future”
Looks forward: where energy transitions could go better, what policies might help, lessons to avoid repeating past mistakes. (University of Chicago Press)

by @HeatherSmith Heather Smith on 13/09/2025 at 5:47 am
Our latest email is here and our next three books will be:

The Snowy by Siobhan McHugh which you can find at many libraries (and here)

Volt Rush by Henry Sanderson (reviewed here)

How Big Things Get Done by Bent Flyberg and Dan Gardner (reviewed here). I’d like to add this work on Accelerating Low Carbon Innovation because I think it dovetails nicely with the book.

by @HeatherSmith Heather Smith on 13/09/2025 at 5:44 am
Sixteen (more actually) groups came together to send a letter to the NSW Minister about its community energy program:

we wanted to make the case for more funding
we wanted a meeting with the Minister
we wanted a more thoughtful approach to the $5m already identified for a community energy program, given that community energy groups across NSW have diverse needs

You can read the letter here
Please get in touch if you want to join this group of agitators

by @HeatherSmith Heather Smith on 12/09/2025 at 11:43 am
Our author talks will be published on the YouTube channel: