Without community support, the green energy transition will fail. Here’s how to get communities on board
- Written by: Simon Wright, Senior Research Fellow, Energy & Circularity, Gulbali Institute, Charles Sturt University
Abby Anaday/Unsplash, CC BY-NC-NDConnecting cheap, clean energy from renewables comes with a hidden cost and challenge: building 5,000 kilometres of new transmission lines this decade, and another 5,000km after that. This sounds like a lot, but 5,000km is only around 10% of the existing grid network, and unlocks more than 32 gigawatts of new clean...
