Events and Community Consultations

Consultation Events: February and March 2025

The Gippsland Skies Offshore Wind team invites you to attend its February community consultation sessions and an additional four sessions with all developers at the ‘Gippsland Offshore Wind Days’ - March series.

Come along to meet the team, share your feedback and learn about the planned marine investigations in the Feasibility Licence Area and proposed cable corridors. We will discuss how health, safety, environment and infrastructure integrity will be managed.

Community Engagement and Consultation for Marine Investigations and Management Plan

  • Foster

    Saturday 15 February

    9am - 12 midday

    Foster War Memorial Arts Centre

  • Sandy Point

    Saturday 15 February

    1pm- 3pm

    Sandy Point Community Centre

  • Fish Creek

    Thursday 20 February

    4pm - 6pm

    Fish Creek Memorial Hall

Gippsland Offshore Wind Days - March Series

Gippsland Offshore Wind Days - November 2024

In November the Gippsland Skies team attended a series of ‘Gippsland Offshore Wind Days’ at Foster, Yarram, Traralgon and Seaspray. These events were a coordinated effort to provide an opportunity for local communities to engage with Gippsland offshore wind developers who were awarded a Feasibility Licence in 2024, as well as key State and Federal government departments including VicGrid.  At the events, community could meet our team, gain an insight into the offshore wind development process, and learn more about what opportunities this new industry represents for the State of Victoria.

  • Seaspray

    Friday, 08 November

    4:30pm - 6:30pm

    Seaspray Surf Life Saving Club

  • Foster

    Wednesday, 13 November

    3pm - 6pm

    Manna Gum Community House

  • Traralgon

    Thursday, 14 November

    4pm - 6pm

    GPAC Meeting Room 1 & 2

  • Yarram

    Saturday, 23 November

    8:30am - 3:30pm

    Yarram Agricultural Show

Community Consultation Events - July 2024

  • The Gippsland team (pictured right) were delighted to meet many local residents at events in Fish Creek, Sandy Point, Foster, Yarram and Seaspray in July 2024.

    If you were unable to attend any of these consultation events, please contact us here to provide feedback and find out about future consultation events.

Gippsland New Energy Conference 2024

As a proud Gold Sponsor, we were delighted to contribute to several panel discussions, meet and greet stakeholders at our Gippsland Skies conference booth and talk careers with school-goers at our Gippy Youth New Energy Job Summit booth - enticed over by local biscuits from Bernis Bikkies sourced in Traralgon! 

Some reflections on the offshore wind market provided by our team Rory Van Weerdenburg, Bill Mundy, Ashley McDonald included the below and see some photos from the event too:

🤝 The Opportunity! Australia stands to benefit from the decade-long learnings of mature markets, like the UK – what to do and what not to do. This encompasses all aspects of project development including how to work effectively and efficiently with all stakeholders including Government, developers, financiers – the full industry spectrum. Collaboration is critical to seize the opportunity the offshore wind market presents and develop projects in a cost-efficient and timely way.
 
🏗 Port Infrastructure: A strategic plan is required at a national level to provide certainty for investment in ports and local supply chain development.
 
👷‍♀️Skills & Training: Now is the time to start the groundwork to build a local, highly trained, and skilled workforce for the construction and O&M phases of our project. Regional Universities are key to getting people to study and stay in the region to support workforce capacity. We are looking forward to collaborating on initiatives such as the Skills Lab being established by TAFE Gippsland and we encourage students to consider a career in offshore wind.
 
Our Head of Legal & Compliance, Anita Murphy also spoke at the Gippsland Women in New Energy breakfast proudly sponsored by Gippsland Skies about her career journey in discovering her love of working in the renewable energy industry. Anita encouraged attendees to consider options and choices available to women in the new energy sector and to discover their own path to career fulfilment through mentorship and professional development training.

  • Rory Van Weerdenburg (l), Project Director speaking about the Opportunity for Australia.

  • Team-members (l-r): Rory Van Weerdenburg and Ashley McDonald.

  • Anita Murphy, Head of Legal & Compliance, Gippsland Skies.

  • Gippy New Energy Job Summit was attended by 300 school-goers.

  • Team-members (l-r): Rory van Weerdenburg, Bill Mundy and Ashley McDonald.

  • Our exhibition booth at GNEC2024 ready and awaiting visitors!

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