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Haystacks Solar Garden

You can have solar. Sunny roof not required.
Attend our Launch event!Online info sessions
Solar garden plots available now! - - click here to apply for a plot

Reasons to join Haystacks Solar Garden:

Solar that moves with you

Solar that moves with you

Simply change your address with our electricity retail partner (Energy Locals) when you move and your solar garden credits will continue to arrive on your electricity bill.
Pioneering a new model

Pioneering a new model

Solar gardens are popular in Europe & the US, now it’s time to spread this model across Australia.
Hassle free solar

Hassle free solar

The solar garden is installed off site – so no worries about installation, plus the insurance and ongoing maintenance is all included in the plot price.  
Reduce your electricity bill

Reduce your electricity bill

The on bill credit helps to reduce your energy costs. You’ll start receiving solar garden credits as soon as the solar array is connected to the grid and producing energy. 

Overview

The Haystacks Solar Garden will enable people without a sunny roof access to the many benefits of rooftop solar – through purchasing a plot in the solar garden. Whether you rent, live in an apartment or have an unsuitable roof for solar, this Solar Garden seeks to unlock the sunny benefits for all.

Grown out of a desire to make renewables accessible for everyone and enabling communities more control over their energy future,  the Haystacks Solar Garden is intended to demonstrate that community owned and small scale solar farms are viable, replicable and provide multiple economic and community benefits. 

Australia’s first large-scale solar garden, allowing hundreds of people locked out of rooftop solar to access to the benefits of solar
1.5 megawatt community solar garden at Grong Grong in the Riverina
Community owned solar co-operative facilitating credits to members’ electricity bills
Joint project between Pingala, Community Power Agency and Komo Energy.

What is a solar garden?

Are you one of the nearly 35% of Australians unable to get the benefits of rooftop solar?

Solar gardens are a solution for you. 

A solar garden is a similar concept to a community garden, but instead of growing veggies, members get to harvest renewable electricity. People who want to install solar on their rooftop but aren’t able to can join a solar garden and receive the benefits from collectively owned renewable electricity.

We do this by joining together in a solar cooperative with many others who also want solar but can’t install it on their roof. Once we have enough people in the cooperative a solar array is built off site in an ideal location for maximum solar generation.

Then each of the cooperative members can purchase a plot in the solar garden. The electricity generated is sold to an electricity retailer and they provide a credit on the members’ electricity bills.

Watch the video below to learn more.