Adapt or perish: The unlikely town at the centre of Australia’s energy experiment

KiloWatt Cars owner Russell Klose at his property in Yackandandah.

In regional Australia, extreme weather events and underfunding can devastate small towns. In Yackandandah, a small town in northeast Victoria, a risky decision over twenty years ago has made them more resilient to both.

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