VICTORIAN Liberal Senator, Jane Hume, has labelled the Local Power Plan launched last week by Wangaratta-based Indi Independent federal member Helen Haines MP as “backward looking and narrow”.

The ambitious power plan calls on the Federal Government to invest $483 million over 10 years to develop locally-owned renewable energy.

Under Dr Haines’ Local Power Plan, Indi communities would host new renewable energy hubs which would act as a blueprint to drive economic recovery.