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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.

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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.

Giles Parkinson

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Why some of Australia’s energy market conventions should go the way of the dinosaurs

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Why some of Australia’s energy market conventions should go the way of the dinosaurs

We face some big challenges. To what extent should we protect businesses designed to operate in a failing energy market design?

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SwitchedOn podcast: What regional communities really want from renewables

What will it take for regional communities to move from hosting renewable projects to sharing in their long-term value?

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