Featured in Harvest Potential – 10-2023

Feeding the appetite for low-carbon food

Australia’s vast distances make the supply of electricity via traditional grids expensive and even dangerous. With demand growing for agricultural goods produced with low-carbon emissions, solar and energy storage is being embraced even by skeptical farmers.

By

Bella Peacock

11 Oct 2023

Standalone power systems have been effective in winning over skeptical farmers and delivering cleaner, more reliable electricity. | Photo: Western Power

In the 23 years Anika Molesworth’s family has been living on their sheep station in far western New South Wales (NSW), Australia, the years of drought have outnumbered the years with rain. From the age of 12, Molesworth has experienced the realities of farming dry, red land. This led her to study agricultural and environmental …

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