Featured in Work in progress – 04-2023

The human touch

While it is easy to dismiss opposition to solar as small-minded local activism, doing so fails to recognize the emotional thread tying together communities wary of seeing fields of solar panels, and ignores missteps often made by remote developers. pv magazine Australia’s Bella Peacock reports on how solar companies can do better.

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Bella Peacock

05 Apr 2023

Protesters to network expansion take their message to the streets of Melbourne, Victoria. | Photo: Darren Edwards

With polls swung in renewables’ favor, Australia’s New South Wales state government published a review, in March, of the sector’s conflicts with agriculture, a key source of community opposition, especially in slated renewable energy zones. “The friction that is emerging may be the most significant risk to policy success,” said the report.Although conflict is pronounced …

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