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‘From sunny north to windy east’: What are Victoria’s renewable energy zones? – The Age
Six new ‘renewable energy zones’ will be established across regional Victoria to accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels, but what are these zones and…
But Victoria’s ageing grid is based on energy flowing from a small number of centralised power stations mostly coal, but also some gas to a large number of users.
The state’s hot and/or windy places aren’t very well connected, and it needs to be upgraded to cope with the soaring number of households with rooftop solar feeding into the grid.
Renewable energy zones mean that areas rich in renewables will be equipped with the right infrastructure and transmission capacity to send clean energy from…
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