We’re celebrating the news that the Daintree Rainforest area, including Cape Tribulation, is going to get its very own renewable energy microgrid in the not-too-distant future.

It’s an amazing opportunity for our little corner of Queensland: work is going to start this year on the Daintree Microgrid Project which will be up and running by 2024, bringing us cheaper and more reliable power!

Though we generate most of our own power from solar here at Wildwood, the region relies heavily on diesel generators. According to this article, Warren Entsch, Member for Leichhardt, says it will save about 6 million litres of diesel.

The first stage of the project will cover the area north of the Alexandra Range up to Cape Trib. Power generated by new and existing solar panels will be fed into the microgrid and turned into hydrogen, which will power about 700 homes. And, to respect and protect the rainforest’s fragile ecosystem, it will all be transported by underground cables along roadways and the generator station is going to built on previously cleared land at Cow Bay.

Such good news for us, the Daintree Rainforest and for the planet.