Featured in Further upstream – 10-2024

First Nations people take control

Supporting First Nations people to effectively engage in and benefit from the energy transition is a timely priority for Australia’s emerging Net Zero Economy Authority, which is tasked with facilitating investments nationwide. pv magazine Australia’s Ev Foley finds the road to clean energy for remote communities can be long and hard, but possible. In the Pilbara, a First Nations group is blazing a trail as a developer of a 3 GW renewables pipeline.
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Ev Foley
Marlinja’s microgrid features a 100 kW 5B Maverick solar array, 136 kWh GoodWe battery, and a GoodWe Hybrid Inverter. | Image: Original Power

 Marlinja is a remote Northern Territory (NT) Aboriginal community of fewer than 100 people, living in about 16 houses, eight hours’ drive from the nearest capital city. The rust-colored terrain is sculpted by sweeping flood plains, shaded by sparse ragged woodland, and fringed by distant sand hills, all under a vast Outback sky.Marlinja is 715 …

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