The Borroloola community’s Ngardara Solar Microgrid project in the Northern Territory has been awarded $8.347 million in funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency today.

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A fundraising campaign raised $150,000 for the installation of a solar power energy system on Mumuthumburru (West Island), a small community off the coast of the Northern Territory's gulf region.

This paper was prepared to support conversations at the Mparntwe (Alice Springs) roundtable for the First Nations Clean Energy Strategy. The Northern Territory has some of the strongest solar radiation in the world and there is clearly much potential to develop clean energy projects on First Nations titled lands. 

Read the paper here

Special thanks to Christian Bass for use of the photo.