The guest speaker at our Probus luncheon was a fellow who works for a company building a storage battery array at Poatina which is just up the road from here. He was an American and he told us he was recruited to work for this organisation who have plans to build facilities in every state and territory. The Tasmanian facility is just about the smallest at 200Mw, I think. He didn't give us any handouts to refresh our memories so I might have it all wrong.
Poatina is an interesting town. It was built in the 1960s as a village for workers building a hydro-electric dam and power station nearby. It was a proper town with a shop and a school and a decent population. After the construction was finished, most of the houses were vacated and some were moved away. later on, a Christian organisation bought the whole village and established it as a drop-in centre for people needing to re-build their lives. On a plane once, we met a young man travelling down from Sydney to have some time there; he was very excited and I often wonder how he got on. The last population count was taken in 2016 and there were 96 people living there.
I suppose this new venture will revitalise the town and I regret not taking up the opportunity of buying a house there when they were on the market, years ago, for peanuts.
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