By Callum Ludwig
Progress is underway to bring power to the property in Yarra Junction of Alice Underwood and her mum.
Queenslander and retired electrician Richard Lukoszek has made the journey down from up north and been working diligently for the last two weeks.
Mr Lukozszek plans to continue working for another three to four weeks, with a total of four arrays of solar panels to be installed on the property.
The first solar panels are all ready up and running and delivering the first electricity to the house in Alice’s lifetime, including powering the first 240 volt electric light set up.
Mr Lukoszek has CEC (Clean Energy Council) accreditation, 45 years of experience in mining and heavy industry and spent the last 13 years in the renewable industry designing and installing off-grid battery storage systems, domestic and commercial solar systems and large-scale solar farms in New South Wales and Queensland.
Mostly used in remote locations with little to no chance of ever getting connection to the energy grid, the off-grid system at the Underwood house will store power in batteries onsite.
Look out for the next update in the Star Mail in the coming weeks once the entire installation is complete.
