Indigenous Solar Company Empowering Remote Communities

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Solar power has brought a remote community in the Northern Territory’s Barkley Tablelands back to life.

Allgrid Energy, an indigenous-owned technology company has replaced their expensive diesel-powered generators with solar storage systems.

With clean cheap energy now available, people have moved back into the community, which now boasts a population of 40 people, and has an air-conditioned school, and two teachers.

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