Featured in Gaining Traction – 02-2022

Power to be heard

The wide-open spaces of the Australian outback make it ripe for solar development, but doing so without the true inclusion of Indigenous communities may repeat the mistakes made by resource extraction companies in the past. However, Indigenous-led companies and an innovative new initiative are looking to put power and ownership into the hands of the land’s traditional owners, reports pv magazine Australia’s Bella Peacock.

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Bella Peacock

11 Feb 2022

Residents of Borroloola, in Australia’s Northern Territory, during microgrid planning. | Image: Original Power

In a cul-de-sac in the center of Australia, 18 tin-roof houses rise out of red dirt. As many as 50 families live here in Marlinja, one of the Northern Territory’s most remote Indigenous communities, and it is in their backyard that the world’s largest solar project is to be built.Sun Cable is striving to supply …

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