Australia's first solar garden sprouts in Grong Grong, taking the renewables boom to the community - eviltoast
On a patch of earth 'big as a Bunnings car park', renters get to muscle in on the solar boom
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A five-hour drive from Sydney, a community garden of sorts has sprouted. But instead of sharing tomatoes or lettuce, "gardeners" harvest solar energy. And it's already a hit with people otherwise excluded from the rooftop solar boom.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/8872514

The ‘solar gardeners’, who mostly live in cities hours away, are getting returns of $505, possibly higher, locked in for the next decade, depending on the electricity market

The returns are credited directly to their electricity bills.

  • abhibeckert@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    The name means “very bad camping ground” in the local Wiradjuri language. I don’t speak the language, but from what little I know of first nations languages I’m guessing a singular “grong” would be “bad camping ground” and duplicating it as “grong grong” makes it “very bad”.

    So yeah, intentionally displeasing. It has reliable water where two creeks join and become one larger creek, which meant it was a place you could camp if you were on your way to somewhere else and needed to stop, but otherwise it’s not somewhere you wanted to be.

    White people established a town there because it was a good place to access water for steam trains - which needed to stop every 10 to 50km to fill up their water tanks.