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Why electricity networks need to understand people, not just poles and wires

More than a billion data points from the Electrify 2515 trial should help networks replace assumptions about household electrification with real-world evidence.
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From wool, to cropping, to solar: How renewable energy can “grow the agricultural pie”

On Facebook, western Victoria is nothing but a hotbed of anti-renewables activism, but there are new efforts to unite farmers and developers to a single cause.
Rachel Williamson
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Better internet, fewer feral pigs: Renewable developers join forces with locals to make lasting change
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Better internet, fewer feral pigs: Renewable developers join forces with locals to make lasting change

Work is underway on a major telecommunications upgrade – and other practical initiatives – to boost communities that host renewable energy projects.
Sophie Vorrath
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Ninety landholders, 3 mobs, two 100-tonne transformers, 90 km of cable: Marinus Link’s long road to coal country

Marinus Link has been a topic of hot political debate in Tasmania, but some of the biggest feats of engineering and logistics are happening on the Victorian side of the interconnector.
Sophie Vorrath
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“We had to wait for the grass to grow:” How an Abbott-inspired community solar farm finally got built

Tony Abbott’s climate attacks inspired a local community to build a first of its kind solar farm. They literally had to watch the grass grow under their feet, but it is now complete.
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Why electricity networks need to understand people, not just poles and wires
Electrification

Why electricity networks need to understand people, not just poles and wires

More than a billion data points from the Electrify 2515 trial should help networks replace assumptions about household electrification with real-world evidence.
Anne Delaney
3
From wool, to cropping, to solar: How renewable energy can “grow the agricultural pie”
Renewables

From wool, to cropping, to solar: How renewable energy can “grow the agricultural pie”

On Facebook, western Victoria is nothing but a hotbed of anti-renewables activism, but there are new efforts to unite farmers and developers to a single cause.
Rachel Williamson
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