Coal heartland to receive major solar energy investment

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Coal heartland to receive major solar energy investment

The government will commit $1 billion to ensure more solar panels are made in Australia. By Kat Wong in Canberra Australia could become a renewable energy superpower after the prime minister made a $1 billion solar power announcement in the nation’s coal heartland. Australia has one of the highest uptakes of solar power in the world, where one in three households have panels on the roof. But only one per cent of those panels are made in Australi…