A clean energy grid means 10,000km of new transmission lines. They can only be built with community backing
- Written by Asma Aziz, Lecturer in Power Engineering, Edith Cowan University

If you drive through central Victoria, you might wonder at the signs reading “Piss off AusNet” in shop windows or even mown into grassland. Communities and farmers are pushing back against plans for new 85-metre towers and transmission lines needed to transmit renewable power to the cities.
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