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Australia's first solar garden sprouts in Grong Grong, taking the renewables boom to the community

www.abc.net.au On a patch of earth 'big as a Bunnings car park', renters get to muscle in on the solar boom

A five-hour drive from Sydney, a community garden of sorts has sprouted. But instead of sharing tomatoes or lettuce, "gardeners" harvest solar energy. And it's already a hit with people otherwise excluded from the rooftop solar boom.

On a patch of earth 'big as a Bunnings car park', renters get to muscle in on the solar boom

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/8872514

The ‘solar gardeners’, who mostly live in cities hours away, are getting returns of $505, possibly higher, locked in for the next decade, depending on the electricity market

The returns are credited directly to their electricity bills.

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