The stylish black integrated inverter and battery system on the balcony of my house

It’s all solar systems go.

After the solar info evening last night, we’re going to do it – over 30 of us from across Australia will buy in bulk to bring down individual prices for solar power systems for schools, houses and offices.

A solar power station or three is in the making, those already with solar are keen to try out the new battery technology and we feel stronger by buying and working together.

The conversation took place in this room where the metal fixing that once held the main grid line to my house now rests on the wall as a sculpture

Forty four people came to the evening.  Everyone was keen to act, keen to do, to get beyond talking, to forsake complaining and blah – just to get on with it.

Yes, the sculpture looks like a futuristic cockroach but it gives me a childish delight and sense of achievement. Every house could have one . . .

Several already have solar systems that are grid connected and are keen to add batteries.

And we’re keen to add social capital to our spending money by investing in social enterprises such as powering remote communities.  If we’re going to buy solar why not use our money at the same time to invest in adding value to, say, another part of society which can benefit from the transactions?  Now, that’s a real return on investment.

It’ll all be lawful.

Legal questions and answers about how to install solar energy, how to go off the grid, how to sell your power are in a website I’ve set up and the legal advice is generously funded by the NSW Government; it’s here.

Thank you to Larissa and Marianne who prepared the data and presentation, to Paul, Brom, Laurie, Judy and John, Richard and so many who brought food and laughter and ideas.

But most of all – thanks to all of us in Australia who, in moments like these, give ourselves permission to be the leaders and shape our own futures.  Who would remain bored waiting, waiting for political leaders to lead when they just don’t?

It’s just plain fun.   Epicurus would approve.