15/06/2026
This week's Community Hero is Detour House Inc
A Sydney safe place for women, girls, and gender non-binary Australians escaping the path toward homelessness. Trauma-informed care. Tailored programs. Real outcomes for people who've been through more than most.
Their story is worth telling.
Detour House had secured a solar grant through Inner West Community Energy. But when they went out for quotes, the systems they could afford within the grant were going to fall short of the real impact they needed on their power bills.
That's where our Community Heroes program stepped in.
Working alongside the grant funding, we topped it up and installed something far more meaningful: a 12kW LONGi solar system paired with a 20kWh Anker SOLIX battery setup. The kind of system that will properly take the pressure off Detour House's running costs for years to come.
Every dollar saved on power is a dollar that goes back into the women and girls in their care.
This one was a real team effort across RESINC. Our Commercial Department championed it internally, led by Nathan Vale, with engineering and design from Nathan Dmello.
On the couch with Jess Eva this morning were Detour House CEO Cindi Peterson and Charmain, a Detour House success story who generously shared her journey on-air. Her story is a reminder of exactly why Detour House does what it does.
A quick note: this install is a partial inclusion in our $1M Community Heroes giveaway, topping up the grant Detour House had already secured. The weekly $1M pledge continues with another deserving recipient.
Huge thanks to Inner West Community Energy for helping community organisations access renewable energy, to Anker SOLIX for the reliable battery tech powering this system, and to Jess Eva and the Today Extra team on Channel 9 for sharing Detour House's story with Australia.