Our Community Benefits Scheme includes the following initiatives:
In addition, based on community interest, there may be future opportunities for the following types of initiatives, which could all play a role in strengthening and enhancing the regional economic development outcomes of the project:
The Delburn Wind Farm Community Pre-Development Grants were established in 2020 to support initiatives that strengthen and enhance the local community. A limited amount of $10,000 will be shared between community groups and non-profit organisations located around the wind farm site.
Applications have now closed. All applicants will be advised of the outcome, and successful grants will be announced publicly at the start of December 2024.
The Delburn Wind Farm Community Pre-Development Grants were established in 2020 to support initiatives that strengthen and enhance the local community. A limited amount of $10,000 will be shared between community groups and non-profit organisations located around the wind farm site. When construction of the Delburn Wind Farm commences, the Community Development Fund will increase to $150,000 per year ($750 per megawatt installed), allowing the community to bring bigger projects ideas and initiatives to life.
Applications for the 2024 Pre-development funding round are now open.
Applications for the 2023 Pre-Development funding round are now open.
Please submit your application before the closing date of 30 November, 2023 via email to [email protected]
We recognise that our near neighbours are priority stakeholders, and that the construction and operation of the wind farm may have some local amenity impacts. There are 103 houses with at least one wind turbine located 2 km away or less.
It is proposed that a portion of the income from the wind farm be distributed directly to the near neighbours over the life of the project. This will be a fixed amount of $500,000 per annum (indexed over the life of the project), to be shared between our near neighbours. How this will be distributed and to whom is still to be agreed.
We will work with the community to determine how funds will be distributed (e.g. through a community trust) and the formula for determining the amount to be allocated to each residence in a way the community feels is fair.
In 2020, we established a Community Development Fund to support community projects focused on sustainability, community health and wellbeing. To date, more than $40,100 in pre-development grants has been shared with community groups to help boost local connections, health and the environment.
Construction of the Delburn Wind Farm is scheduled to start in the first quarter of 2024. Once underway, the Community Development Fund will increase to around $150,000 per year ($750 per megawatt installed), allowing the community to bring bigger ideas to life. The decision making on these grants will be made in collaboration with a new Community Benefits Committee to be established in 2024 to oversee the investment in community projects around the wind farm. Anyone interesting in being part of this committee should email [email protected] or call 1800 676 428.
The current round of Community Pre-Development Grants closed on 24 November 2024.
Prior to submitting an application, please review the Grant Application Guidelines and ensure your community group members agree to the Funding Deed Agreement and public acknowledgment requirements.
If you have any questions about the Pre-Development Grant Applications, please contact 1800 676 428.
The Delburn Wind Farm has awarded a number of grants since 2020:
Being embedded in the local community, the Delburn Wind Farm wishes to provide the community with the opportunity to invest in and share the returns generated by the wind farm. Investors will receive receive returns based on the wind farm’s performance, or fixed returns, depending on the investment structure agreed upon.
Through the Delburn Wind Farm survey that was open throughout 2019, over $1m of community investment was pledged, and over 60% of the responders considered it important, demonstrating sufficient support for this opportunity to be progressed. Delburn Wind Farm will work with the community to define the model and key terms of the investment offer.
The community co-investment model could be established through a range of different structures such as a company, a cooperative, an association or trust. The community would have no formal ownership or responsibility over the project and no decision-making power for the operation of the asset, but would receive financial benefits – either linked to performance of the Delburn Wind Farm as a whole or fixed in nature. The design of the scheme and investment mechanism will be co-designed with the community once the construction has commenced in order to be ready for implementation once the wind farm reaches commercial operations.
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The Delburn Wind Farm is a joint venture project between OSMI Australia and Cubico Sustainable Investments.
Delburn Wind Farm acknowledges the Traditional Owners and ongoing Custodians of the lands in which we operate. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.
The Delburn Wind Farm is a joint venture project between OSMI Australia and Cubico Sustainable Investments.
Delburn Wind Farm acknowledges the Traditional Owners and ongoing Custodians of the lands in which we operate. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.