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UPDATE 26 | DECEMBER 2025
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EnergyCo - Asking for Feedback
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Petition by Walcha High Country Guardians
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EnergyCo’s New Transmission Route
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We Need Your Voice!
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EnergyCo is asking the community for feedback on their proposed transmission corridor from Bayswater → Central South Hub, cutting straight through the Walcha district.
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This is your land, your lifestyle — your say matters.
Short or long, every submission counts.
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Walcha has always supported Sensible Renewables
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We are practical people. We’ve listened. We’ve participated in planning. We want a successful renewable transition.
But right now — this isn’t sensible planning.
The current transmission proposal will lead to environmental damage, financial waste, and unnecessary hardship for landholders and energy users alike.
— Based on evidence reviewed by our community experts.
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A Hub With No Generators?
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The Central South Hub was designed years ago to serve developers who… aren’t coming anymore.
Yet EnergyCo continues to push a massive, expensive network:
- A major new substation
- Multiple overlapping transmission lines
- Through land never meant for industrial-scale buildout
This is not aligned with the original purpose of the REZ.
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Small Community. Giant Burden.
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Walcha LGA has fewer than 3,500 residents — yet we’re expected to absorb impacts meant for a regional city:
- Workforce accommodation crisis
- Road safety and destruction
- Farmland sterilisation
- Visual and landscape impacts
Our community does not have infrastructure to cope.
And we gain almost no benefit.
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Scale it back to Reality
EnergyCo quietly shifted the NE REZ from the consulted 8 GW generation target
→ to 8 GW transmissible capacity, which implies 16–18 GW of generation.
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A realistic zone is 3 - 4 GW of transmission aligned to real generator interest.
Anything beyond that is economic risk and unnecessary land take.
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What We Are Asking For
These are fair, reasonable expectations:
- Return to the existing 330 kV easement — no new scars across prime land
- Scale down to real generator demand
- Collaborate properly with affected landholders
- Protect high-value landscapes and productive farmland
- Audit wind and solar developer commitments before building anything
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How to Submit Feedback
This is not a formal submission. Just your opinion.
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Deadline > This Friday, 12th December
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We strongly recommend copying your submission to key MPs so they receive your words - not EnergyCo’s summary ...
Brendan Moylan MP [email protected]
Penny Sharpe (Minister)
[email protected]
James Griffin (Shadow Minister)
[email protected]
Chris Minns (Premier)
[email protected]
Mark Speakman (Opposition Leader) [email protected]
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Support the E-Petition — 20,000 Signatures Needed!
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The landholders under the newly-selected corridor have launched an official NSW Parliament E-petition.
These are YOUR neighbours: people whose land value, biodiversity, and livelihoods are directly harmed.
It takes 1–2 minutes.
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👉 Please sign and share widely
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Walcha Stands Together
We are not anti-renewables.
We are for future generations.
Your voice today protects Walcha tomorrow.
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How can you help?
If you haven't done this yet please click below to sign up, even if you are also a subscriber and tick the box stating ..
"I support the actions of Voice for Walcha, in their communications and activity, through my membership"
To show your support, and to strengthen our influence.
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