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Public company powering ahead

By Keith PlattFebruary 26, 2018Updated:February 26, 2018No Comments3 Mins Read
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AN “oversight” committee has been formed to ensure “community ownership” of control and infrastructure of a power company aiming to halve electricity bills on the Mornington Peninsula within six years.

The People Power Company Mornington (PPCM) is holding a series of public meetings to gauge support for its plan to “fund, build and own together, a renewable plus storage, private electricity company to serve the needs of all ratepayers within the shire”.

“In standing up to promote a genuine community opportunity, we have been bowled over by how rigorously the community drills us on critical and important details of the proposal,” spokesman Magnus Mansie, of Shoreham, said.

“The wisdom of crowds is not a myth, it is a hard-nosed reality and despite feeling like one is in the cross-hairs at times, it is an exhilarating experience.”

Mr Mansie said forming a Community Oversight Committee (COC) “is an important first step in the [company] honouring its commitment to community ownership and control of their own energy infrastructure”.

He said the committee would have access to all aspects of the company’s planning, “including commercial-in-confidence issues”.

“A process for resolving any community concerns is under discussion and will be codified and ratified in due course.”

Mr Mansie said organisers were “taking on-board the current crop of important questions” raised at community meetings at Shoreham and Mornington “in order to be able to present the proposal with greater clarity”.

“The community must feel very comfortable with this opportunity and know that there is absolutely no risk in registering,” he said.

Mr Mansie told The News in January that by its sixth year of operation People Power Company Mornington “will be keeping around $165 million a year in the pockets of our local community for a further 20 years”.

The move for a privately-owned power company followed the announcement by Mornington Peninsula Shire of its “partnership” in a “community grid project” with United Energy and GreenSync “to harness the power of demand response and facilitate the uptake of new renewable energy technologies”.

Mr Mansie said PPCM had a team of “engineers with international, large-scale project design and delivery experience, national economic experience and international ethics experience”.

The company’s plan for power consumers to not be reliant on “government or corporate actions” involved building “renewable generation capacity as well as storage”.

“It is intended that Mornington Peninsula Shire ratepayers and the employees of the company will be the only owners of this new company,” Mr Mansie said.

“We will model the solutions in partnership with the only distributor on the peninsula, United Energy, and those positive discussions have already commenced.

The company’s next meeting is 6pm – 7.30pm Friday 2 March at Hastings Community Hall.

Interested ratepayers and renters may register for the meeting at: www.morningtonpower.com.au

First published in the Southern Peninsula News – 27 February 2018

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