A grass hearth at one in every of Australia’s largest photo voltaic farms, the 400 MW Wellington North Solar Farm between Wellington and Dubbo within the NSW Central West, throughout final weekend’s heatwave, has laid naked the depth of anti-renewables feeling in sections of regional Australia.
But it has additionally shone a lightweight on the double requirements of some renewable sceptic councils, councillors and Nationals MPs within the area that’s dwelling to the large Central-West Orana Renewable Energy Zone (REZ). While they typically struggle towards wind and photo voltaic farms, they strongly assist the mining of crucial minerals wanted for renewables.
