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An artist's impression of a proposed solar farm in Waikato, 2022. Photo: Supplied
This week, it's Solar eclipse: Our renewable power struggle, written by George Driver and published in North & South magazine's August issue.
You can read the full story in the August issue, or on the North & South website.
Millions of panels could soon be erected across thousands of hectares of the country as an unprecedented solar-farm boom begins. It’s part of efforts to more than double the country’s power generation by 2050. What do we stand to gain, and what might we lose?
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