Charlie Prell

Charlie Prell is a recently retired sheep farmer from Crookwell in the Southern Tablelands of NSW. He sold his farm, which is one of four under the Crookwell 2 windfarm. He now lives in Vincentia on Jervis Bay, south of Wollongong in NSW.

He has more than 20 years experience advocating for the benefits of wind farms and renewables. Especially if a comprehensive and inclusive “benefit sharing” model is used, where the whole community shares in the benefits the infrastructure brings.

He worked for RE-Alliance for 5 years to August 2019.

He was part of the working group that formed “Farmers for Climate Action” in 2016. He was co-chair and deputy chair of Farmers for Climate Action during the period when they were establishing themselves as a credible representative farmer organisation. He became Chair of Farmers for Climate Action in October 2020 and held this role until July 2023.

He remains passionate about the health and well-being of small regional communities and in assisting these communities to meet the challenge of climate change. He continues to promote the opportunities that meeting these challenges will bring to individual farmers and the small regional communities where they live.