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Bonnie Harrison

Long Read: Our renewable power struggle

Solar panels at Kaiwaiwai Dairies dairy farm. Photo: Marc Daalder

This is The Detail's Long Read  one in-depth story read by us every weekend.

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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