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As Australia pushes toward net zero, SBS World News reporter Alexandra Jones travels to Dubbo, in the state's first Renewable Energy Zone and Orange in New South Wales' Central West to explore how solar farms, transmission lines and batteries are reshaping regional communities. From agrisolar farmers and community-owned solar cooperatives to First Nations land councils securing stakes in clean energy projects, the benefits of the transition are clear but so are the tensions, with some landowners reporting plummeting property values and growing calls for better consultation.