Billy is an Associate Director at Cogency, a climate action-oriented planning and engagement consultancy. He hails from Southwest Victoria, the sixth generation on his family’s beef farm. Billy’s day-to-day work is centred on planning approvals for renewable energy and storage projects across the eastern seaboard.
He is passionate about the nexus of renewable energy development, regional & rural economic empowerment, agricultural sustainability and ecology. His expertise in renewable energy development and experience growing up on a rural farm with high voltage transmission lines means he can speak with insight and empathy with landowners, small communities and other stakeholders.