The Energy Program Director from the Melbourne-based Grattan Institute, Tony Wood (pictured), was the keynote speaker at the Wednesday, July 23, National Renewables in Agriculture Conference and Expo.

The conference, the best-attended yet of the several already staged, was held in Bendigo's Capital Theatre.

Nearly 400 people enjoyed the theatre's facilities and, particularly, the varied and powerful program laid out by event organiser, Karin Stark.

Earlier conferences had been held in Queensland and New South Wales, but this was the first in Victoria, although one was recently staged in Albury, close to the Victorian border.

The Chief Operating Officer, Wei-Chi Lee, (pictured) and one of the trio of founders of the Melbourne-based company, Phnxx, will be in Bendigo on Wednesday, July 23.

We-Chi will be at the National Renewables in Agriculture Conference and Expo to be held at the city's View St Capital Theatre.

Phnxx has a stand-alone solar/battery, containerised array of equipment that allows a farmer, regardless of what they are growing or producing, to quickly, easily, and relatively cheaply adopt renewable energy, eliminating, almost entirely, the cost vagaries of electricity to run their farm.

The Bendigo conference is another in a series of annual events organised by Karin Stark, who lives on a cotton and wheat farm in Narromine, providing her with a firsthand perspective on the inherent energy challenges faced by farmers.

Karin was a guest on "Climate Conversations".