About Us

RE Future is an Australian owned and funded enterprise
operated by a small group of seasoned wind industry professionals.

Our extensive knowledge of Victoria’s wind topography and the local/regional electricity grid enables us to identify new and previously overlooked locations for the establishment of wind generation facilities.

Our proven expertise in securing development approval for wind farms enables us to move quickly to secure sites and obtain the necessary permits and agreements. Finally, when the time is right, our network of potential investors and development partners will ensure funding is available when needed to commence construction.

The company’s Directors David Shapero, Pete Lausberg, Adrian Nelson, Severin Staalesen and Peter Higgins are some of the most experienced wind farm developers in Australia with more than 80 years combined experience. Since 2001 they have worked together independently or as partners in several different entities and have successfully developed over 840 MW of wind projects that are now built and operating.

In 2005, the team founded one of Victoria’s leading independent wind farm developers Future Energy, which over its 12 year history secured Victorian Government Development Approval for Hepburn, Chepstowe, Maroona, Yawong, Timboon, Ferguson and Diapur wind farms and one solar facility.

For two of these projects (Chepstowe near Ballarat (2015) and Maroona near Ararat (2018), Future Energy secured private investment and bank debt funding, contracted and coordinated the construction, and managed them for the owners until their purchase by Prime Super in 2023.

In 2017, German renewables developer BayWa r.e. acquired Future Energy’s project pipeline, and contracted the FE team to set up their Australian business. Working as BayWa Australia, the FE team contracted and constructed the Timboon and Yawong projects in 2019 and managed their sale to Epic Energy Pty Ltd. Similarly, the, Ferguson and Diapur  projects were contracted and built by the FE/BayWa team in 2020/21 and subsequently sold to Prime Super.

In 2021 the team left BayWa to establish RE Future, which over the last four years has secured Development Approval for three wind farms in Western Victoria totalling over 120MW. Separately, under a contract from a large Australian renewable energy developer and operator, REF will soon secure Development Approval for two large Central Victorian wind farms totalling over 1.2 GW.