Off-grid dream becomes reality as bushfire threat creates new era for power networks
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DecDecember 2020 at 8:45pm
Srisa Heffernan could not defend her family property against bushfire last summer, after a power outage left her without water.
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In the days after last summer's bushfires, Srisa Heffernan trampled around her mother's farm to see if she could find anything that hadn't been incinerated in the ferocious blaze.
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